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Youth Leadership Summit
Vineyarders are invited to nominate a young person (ages 15-20) from the Island to serve as a delegate to the 2011 Youth Leadership Summit for Sustainable Development. The summit will be held from June 18 to 24. An orientation will be held on Wednesday, May 4 from 4 to 5 p.m. in the regional high school library conference room. The Martha’s Vineyard Youth Leadership Initiative is a project of the Stone Soup Leadership Institute; for more information visit soup4worldinstitute.com or mvyli.org.
Middle School Night
The Martha’s Vineyard Youth Task Force invites parents of students in grades six to eight to a free evening of delicious food prepared by the regional high school culinary arts program, and discussion and resources to support you as your children make the transition through middle school and into the high school. The event will be held on May 4 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the high school cafeteria.
Chilmark voters made speedy work of their annual town meeting on Monday night at the Chilmark Community Center, approving an overhaul of the town personnel bylaw, a new set of rules for swimming pools and tennis courts and a $7 million budget in two hours flat.
A total of 107 voters attended; longtime moderator Everett Poole presided over the session.
The budget, up $238,000 over last year, includes a 2.6 per cent cost of living increase for town employees, the highest on the Island. Chilmark town employees received no increase last year.
If it’s a weeknight in Vineyard Haven then the strains of B.B. King or Howlin’ Wolf are likely spilling from the third story of an unassuming white house on Church street. There the Mourning Sons are crammed into the attic, mired in a tangle of extension cords and lit only by a bare lightbulb and that most uncompromising American form of music, the blues.
“We play until [drummer Zion Harris’] mom tells us to shut up,” says frontman and bassist Evan Hall.
Compared with the other nine developers who have expressed interest in building commercial-scale wind farms across some 3,000 square miles of federal ocean south of Martha’s Vineyard, the Vineyard Power cooperative looks like a minnow.
Jeff Kristal won a second term as Tisbury selectman on Tuesday, in a second close race with the man he replaced three years ago, Tom Pachico.
At the end of a campaign marked by personal attacks by the candidates on one another, Mr. Kristal prevailed by a mere 12 votes, 461 to 449. Three years ago, when Mr. Pachico was a three-term incumbent, the margin was 14.