News
Just months after having to cut nearly a quarter million dollars from its fiscal year 2011 budget at the insistence of the Massachusetts Department of Revenue, Oak Bluffs voters approved a nearly $25 million budget with little discussion at Tuesday night’s annual town meeting.
Tisbury voters took big steps toward a future less dependent on fossil fuels at Tuesday night’s special town meeting.
A suite of four related articles pertaining to energy conservation and generation measures dominated the 16-article town meeting warrant — in terms of length they made up more than half of it — and also dominated the discussion.
After a year of planning, a series of setbacks and vocal community opinion, Edgartown voters unanimously agreed at the annual town meeting Tuesday night to move forward on a plan to locate the new library at the old Edgartown School site.
It was the first time voters had the opportunity to affirm the library building committee’s proposal to leave the current North Water street library in favor of knocking down the old school and starting anew.
Dr. Paul Goldstein did not get stung by a bee last summer. That’s unremarkable unless you account for the fact that he tried to catch every kind of bee on the Island, bagging some 10,000 samples.
With only one contest on the ballot for finance committee, turnout was extremely low in the West Tisbury annual town election Thursday, with just 296 voters casting ballots, 12 per cent of those registered to vote.
In a three-way race for two seats on the finance committee, Gary Montrowl and Katherine Triantafilou were elected with 204 and 191 votes respectively, while Joseph K. Gervais trailed with 87 votes.
Island Alpaca’s well-decorated herd sire, Estrada, won a first place position in his age and color category for his fleece from the Empire Alpaca Association Fleece Event and Fiber Symposium in Syracuse, N.Y. recently. He also was awarded the highly coveted championship (all age groups) in a class of 36 alpaca. All but three alpaca were younger competitors to Estrada, an overwhelming number to challenge for most older alpacas.