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Falmouth Academy Standouts
David C. Faus, headmaster of Falmouth Academy, announced that nine Vineyard students were named to the academy headmaster’s list for the second trimester. They are: seniors Emelia Armstead of Edgartown and Kinsman Maynard of Chilmark; eighth graders Caley Bennett, Alec Cobban and Quinn Cobban of Edgartown, Eli Hanschka of Vineyard Haven and Aidan Huntington of West Tisbury; and seventh graders Zachary Bresnick and Nathan D’Angelo of West Tisbury.
Lasell Dean’s List
Kris McCabe of Kingston, N.Y. and Edgartown was named to the dean’s list at Lasell College in Newton for the fall semester. A senior, he is majoring in secondary English education. He also was this year’s captain on the men’s college cross country team. He is the son of Brian McCabe and Kristi Jo Weber-McCabe of Kingston, N.Y., and Edgartown.
The Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society and Island Grown Initiative have joined forces in a venture to build a slaughterhouse behind the fairgrounds in West Tisbury.
The project is still in the very early stages of discussion and no permits have been obtained, but preliminary talks between the agricultural society and the nonprofit IGI are under way to allow a slaughterhouse facility to be built behind the new barn on society land.
Plans to build a roundabout at the blinker intersection in Oak Bluffs are back on the front burner, and on Wednesday this week representatives from the Massachusetts Highway Department and the engineering and construction firm Greenman Pedersen Inc. made their case, saying it will save lives, improve traffic and even cut down on emissions. Just don’t call it a rotary, they said.
Tisbury voters will have only one election contest to decide on Tuesday, but it is a hot one, between two men who have served as selectmen, for whom it is a very personal contest.
Tom Pachico served nine years before Jeff Kristal beat him in the annual town election three years ago by a mere 14 votes. Neither makes any secret of the antipathy between them.
Talk to either of them about the issues in the campaign, and it very quickly turns into a recitation of the alleged shortcomings of the other.
In the week after a town election that saw two incumbent selectmen ousted, Oak Bluffs residents were still buzzing about the new face of town leadership and the current of discontent that swept Duncan Ross and Ron DiOrio out of office.