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Cottage Museum Opens
The Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meeting Association’s Cottage Museum and Gift Shop at 1 Trinity Park in Oak Bluffs is open for the season, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and 1 to 4 p.m. on Sundays.
Some might say one is blessed just riding a bike. Nothing but the wind and sky and open road to call home. But, hey, everyone can use a bit of extra blessing when out there on two wheels.
This Saturday, May 28, beginning at 10 a.m. the second annual blessing of the bikes takes place at the Edgartown Federated Church at 45 South Summer street.
The Rev. Dr. Jerry Fritz, an avid cyclist when not in the pulpit preaching the word, will preside.
Isaiah Scheffer is hopeful about the future for those who love to go bay scalloping, oystering and quahaugging in Chilmark. Recent successes in all three fisheries may be due to Mother Nature, but another key ingredient is some labor-intensive, progressive shellfish restoration work. Mr. Scheffer recently gave a talk and slideshow at the Chilmark Free Public Library about that ongoing work.
Oak Bluffs residents rejected both proposition 2 and 1/2 override questions on Thursday’s special election ballot.
A total of 559 residents turned out to reject one override that would have restored $230,000 in cuts to the town’s road paving program, and another that would have to restored $254,000 in cuts to hire a town finance director, two teaching aides at the Oak Bluffs school, an animal control officer and an assistant for the shellfish department.
The first ballot question was defeated 376-182 and the second was defeated 387-170.
Oak Bluffs voters go to the polls on Thursday for special override election that will decide whether the cash-strapped town can afford to pave streets, hire a finance director, keep teaching aides at the town school and hire an animal control officer.
Voters will be asked to approve two Proposition 2 1/2 override questions, one to restore $230,000 in cuts to the highway department budget, and a second to restore $254,000 in cuts to a variety of other departments.
Polling hours are from noon to 7 p.m. at the Oak Bluffs Library.
Tashmoo Beach will be closed for about a month after a piping plover nest was found Monday on Herring Creek Road.
Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary director Suzan Bellincampi said the nest contains four eggs and is located along the side of Herring Creek Road just before the parking area. Federal and state laws mandate a 100-yard protective perimeter around plover nests; Ms. Bellincampi said closing the beach is the only way to abide by those rules.