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Falling 20 voters shy of a quorum, the Edgartown special town meeting was rescheduled for next Tuesday, Nov. 1. “Bring a friend,” Edgartown selectman Arthur Smadbeck advised the 139 voters who had assembled to no avail at the Old Whaling Church Tuesday night.
The 15-article warrant contains a number of key issues, including a request for money to commission an appraisal for the Capt. Warren House with an eye toward a possible sale, and a request to convert the old silos at Katama Farm into cell towers.
Because of an administrative mix-up, a man charged with drug offenses was mistakenly released from the Dukes County jail this week but arrested less than 24 hours later when an Oak Bluffs police officer spotted him headed to the mainland on the ferry, authorities said.
On Tuesday at a benefit night for Lila Fischer and Hannah Kahl’s coming trip to Africa to work for Earth Birth, Ms. Fischer held up a jar she planned to pass around throughout the evening for contributions. There would be a prize each hour, she said to the packed house at Flatbread/Nectar’s, for the largest contribution.
Last fall Tomar Waldman and Keepa Lowe were driving around the Vineyard enjoying the crisp autumn air. On their journey, they wondered what it may have been like for the people of the Wampanoag Tribe and their food sources centuries ago.
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