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Town Provisions owner Brion McGroarty told the Edgartown selectmen this week that he is making another attempt to build a liquor store near the airport.
The selectmen gave Mr. McGroarty their blessing to proceed with the permitting process to build an addition to the building now owned by Nectar’s and the Vermont pizza company Flatbread. Mr. McGroarty will need approval from the town, airport commission, the state alcoholic beverage control commission and likely the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.
Incumbent Aquinnah selectman Camille Rose will face a challenge in the annual town election this year, as Beverly Wright has thrown her hat into the ring as a candidate. Mrs. Wright is former chairman of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah). Ms. Rose, the current chairman of the selectmen, is seeking a third term.
The election is Wednesday, May 11; the annual town meeting is Tuesday, May 10.
There are no other contested races on the ballot.
Sewering the Ocean Heights section of Edgartown could go a long way toward restoring Sengekontacket Pond, a prominent marine scientist told the Martha’s Vineyard Commission this week.
Honor Roll Addendum
The following correction and additions to the Tisbury School honor roll were sent to the Gazette this week.
Lachlan Cormie received high honors for the third quarter; he had been listed as receiving honors.
Seventh grade honors also went to Megan Piche, Michaela Piche and Max Santos.
In his small office with wide floorboards and rippled glass windows, Edward Hoagland sat in front of his bookshelf at his 18th century Edgartown home earlier this week. Behind him on his desk was a 1968 Olympia typewriter, the ink still wet from the essay he had been working on earlier that morning. Old New Yorker magazine covers with circus scenes on them decorated the walls, a few African masks hung above the windows and classical music played in the background.
Fashionable Art of Flowers
Featherstone Center for the Arts will host its second annual Garden Tea Party and Fashion Show on Saturday, May 7 from 2 to 4 p.m. The tea party will feature tea, sandwiches and cake. A Peggy Zablotny botanical collage will be the raffle prize, while other prizes will be awarded for special hats. Minor Knight will be fashion moderator, while Traeger di Pietro, Denys and Marilyn Wortman, Anne Gallagher and Shelley Christiansen will walk the runway under the tent at Featherstone’s campus on Barnes Road in Oak Bluffs.