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Chilmark voters acted with dispatch on a 37-article annual town meeting warrant on Monday night, approving a $7 million town budget that includes a 2.6 per cent cost of living increase for town employees, overhauling the town personnel bylaw and approving a new set of rules for swimming pools in town.
A Community Preservation Act spending article for the Tea Lane Farm restoration project, and two articles that would funnel CPA money to Martha’s Vineyard Museum projects were indefinitely postponed.
When the Colonial Inn first opened for business in 1911, the big news about Edgartown’s largest hotel, located just one minute from Steamboat Wharf, was that it was “electrified,” offered hot and cold water baths and all the conveniences in modern plumbing. This season, as the hotel reopens on the anniversary of its 100th year, the air will once again be “electrified” — this time with big news about a new name, building renovations and plans for a 100-day celebration.
Savor the moment and save the date. Poet and playwright Sonia Sanchez, professor emeritus at Temple University where she was the first Presidential Fellow and held the Laura H. Carnell Chair in English and taught in the Women’s Studies Department, will be the featured speaker at Della Hardman Day on Saturday, July 30 at 4 p.m. in Ocean Park.
The restoration of Farm Pond in Oak Bluffs is underway as last week engineers from two firms began initial survey work on what is hoped will become a widened culvert and a revitalized pond.
A property owner at Sweetened Water Farm in Edgartown has appealed a recent planning board decision not to allow him to subdivide his property under the Form A (approval not required) process.
Dwight W. Arundale claims the planning board decision contravenes the law. The appeal was filed in Massachusetts Land Court.
The standard of education at the West Tisbury School was a topic for discussion during the most recent up-Island regional school district meeting.
School committee member and West Tisbury representative Michael Marcus had asked parents to attend the meeting to discuss ideas for raising the academic bar.
Mr. Marcus said parents who have sent their children to off-Island schools such as the Falmouth Academy had approached him to say student needs were not being met on the Island.