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Tisbury selectmen joined the chorus calling for cable television service to Chappaquiddick this week, voting to pull out of the Islandwide contract talks with Comcast.
“With Edgartown pulling out because of the Chappaquiddick piece not being addressed, I’d like us to send our marching orders to our representative [Fred LaPiana] to stop talks as well,” said selectman Jeffrey Kristal. The vote came at the selectmen’s meeting Tuesday.
John W. Mayhew, beloved husband, father, grandfather, WWII Navy fighter pilot, West Tisbury town father, fisherman, teacher and friend, passed away at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital on Jan. 10. He departed in the early morning hours, around the time he would rise to get out on the water to go fishing in an earlier time, and his family imagines that is where he has gone. He was 91 years old. A full obituary will follow soon, and a communitywide memorial service will be planned for later in the year, with notice provided in both local papers.
Tonight’s event entitled Reenergizing in the New Year with Margot Datz has been rescheduled due to illness for next Tuesday, Jan. 17, at 6 p.m. The event is hosted by the Martha’s Vineyard Women’s Network. For more information or to register for next week’s presentation, visit mvwomensnetwork.org.
Tickets are still available for Martha’s Vineyard Night, this Friday, Jan. 13, to see the play Stick Fly on Broadway. The play was written by Lydia Diamond and centers around an African American family confronting race and class dynamics while vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard.
A blurb for the play reads, “It started as a relaxing weekend on Martha’s Vineyard ... then the baggage got unpacked.”
The Chilmark and Aquinnah Fire Departments will conduct a fire drill at 6 p.m. today, Jan. 9 at Tea Lane Farm. Selectman Frank Fenner cautioned residents at a selectmen’s meeting last Tuesday the drill is just that and there is no reason to be alarmed. “There’s going to be a lot of flashing lights,” Mr. Fenner said. “It’s an opportunity to use an empty building to search the building for victims.”
This is what 118 people saw on Sunday afternoon’s Otter Walk: Three ducks, five dogs on leashes, a rusted tractor wheel and four folding chairs with broken seats.
This is what they did not see: otters.
Guided by wildlife biologists Luanne Johnson and Liz Baldwin, the largest turn-out of winter walkers in recent memory trudged through a mile and a half of trails, fields and bogs around the Wakeman Conservation Center searching for the elusive mammals, finding only their flat grassy slides into ponds, their lay-downs, and their distinctive detritus.