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Healthy Living Funds
Martha’s Vineyard will receive a federal grant of $75,000 to expand healthy living efforts, state representative Tim Madden has announced. The funds will be used to promote active lifestyle efforts, tobacco-free living and clinical preventive services through the Mass in Motion program.
The dog days of summer may be over at Lambert’s Cove Beach and Uncle Seth’s Pond after West Tisbury voters have their say at next week’s special town meeting.
The meeting begins at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the West Tisbury School gymnasium, when voters will take up a 10-article warrant that features a number of small transfers and routine budget housekeeping items. But one article is sure to generate debate: a proposal to prohibit dogs and horses on Lambert’s Cove Beach and at Seth’s Pond between June 15 and Sept. 15.
By PETER BRANNEN
The dog days of summer may be over at Lambert’s Cove Beach and Uncle Seth’s Pond after West Tisbury voters have their say at next week’s special town meeting.
The problem with streaks is that they must all come to an end. Even Joe DiMaggio had to strike out at some point.
Football plays its homecoming game (and final home game of the season) tomorrow against Medford at 6:30 p.m. Senior recognition begins at 5:30 p.m.
Cookies Against Cancer
LeRoux at Home is baking cookies to battle cancer. The Vineyard Haven home store will host a bake sale on Saturday, Nov. 19 from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Proceeds from the event will be donated to Cookies for Kids’ Cancer, a nonprofit organization that raises funds for pediatric research.
Hoping to put their financial problems behind them once and for all, Oak Bluffs voters agreed at a special town meeting Tuesday night to cut $303,561 from the fiscal year 2012 budget.
“We are at a crossroads and this is the night that decisions are made,” said interim town administrator Robert Whritenhour, who drew applause following a detailed 40-minute presentation on the town budget.