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As hundreds of West Tisbury residents, including selectmen and moderator, awaited the beginning of the annual town meeting, Daniel Waters stood up to recite, not a prayer but a poem written especially for the occasion.
Tonight the gym is filled with chairs
In which our town will sit
Our democratic derrieres
And chew the fat a bit.
‘It seems we did this just last week,’
We comment with a groan;
Yet measured by our own physique,
After a clerical error in this year’s community development block grant application saw the Island miss out on $2 million in money for child care assistance and housing rehabilitation, Oak Bluffs residents in need will still get some relief from an overlooked program account.
A disbarred Edgartown attorney has been charged with unlawfully practicing law and taking thousands of dollars from an accident victim who hired him to perform legal services.
John C. McBride, 62, was arraigned last week on charges stemming from his alleged legal representation of David Silva, 48, also of Edgartown, who suffered injuries in a May bicycling accident and sought damages from the town.
By PETER BRANNEN
With the rut just around the corner and hot-and-bothered deer at their most reckless, the Massachusetts Highway Department has told the town of West Tisbury it is done disposing of dead deer on state roads.
“Last Friday Mass Highway was called because a dead deer was on a state road and generally they go out and pick it up but they informed us they’re not going to do it anymore,” said town administrator Jen Rand. “The reason being they say there’s no place to put it.”
A longtime Chappaquiddick resident who gave a parcel of land to the town for conservation told the selectmen this week that he objects to a possible plan to build a cell tower on the property.
Appearing at the selectmen's meeting Tuesday, Bill Brine said he was “highly disturbed” that the town would consider putting a tower up on the 9.4-acre parcel on Narraganssett avenue. He also said a conservation restriction on the land prohibits development.
Tina Miller, former general manager of Plum TV on Martha’s Vineyard, has been named director of sales and business partnerships for the Vineyard Gazette.
The appointment was announced this week by publisher Jane Seagrave, who said the role was a new one for the Gazette, which also publishes Martha’s Vineyard Magazine and the Best Read Guide of Martha’s Vineyard. Ms. Miller will report to general manager Joe Pitt, working with the company’s advertising sales staff to develop new ways to help local businesses expand their customer base.