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Aquinnah voters will be asked to decide whether the town should pay its share of $1.5 million in repairs to the West Tisbury School at a special town meeting planned for later this month or early July.
Selectmen decided Tuesday to call the special town meeting.
Pulitzer prize-winning historian William McFeely set the mood for the rapt crowd at the library of the Martha’s Vineyard Museum on Tuesday. They had gathered to learn about the role that one Vineyard ship played at the close of the Civil War.
The Martha’s Vineyard Women’s Network has elected new officers for its 2011-2012 programming and education season.
Jan Pogue, owner of Vineyard Stories, has been elected president. Vice president is Danielle Bailey, owner of Kiddo’s in Oak Bluffs. Margo Urbany-Joyce, financial advisor with Ameriprise Financial in Edgartown, after three years as president, is treasurer. Kristin Buck, formerly of the Visiting Nursing Association, is secretary.
Correction
A story in the Tuesday Gazette about the intended purchase by the Martha’s Vineyard Museum of the old Marine Hospital in Vineyard Haven misquoted executive director David Nathans. Mr. Nathans did not say the price being negotiated was “substantially” below the list price for the property.
The Gazette regrets the error.
It had been 67 years since Fred B. (Ted) Morgan Jr. had been back to La Fière, Normandy, in France, but it was certainly worth the wait. “It was the most amazing trip of my life,” the much-decorated town father of Edgartown said this week upon his return from visiting the place where he played a part in making world history on June 6, 1944.
The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) will develop a cooperative management plan for the Menemsha Pond with $181,590 in tribal wildlife grants from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The management plan would not only ensure the proper management of the bay scallop resource in Menemsha Pond, but also create a framework for management of other important resources, such as American oysters, herring species, winter flounder, American eels, and any other resource found in the connected pond system, according to a statement from the federal officials.