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Nica Sylvia
Nica Sylvia of West Tisbury, a junior majoring in civil engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, recently completed an intense, hands-on research project in Melbourne, Australia. The project was titled Building Sustainable Behaviour: Interactive Displays for Youth Empowerment.
Matt Tobin has been a horticulturist for 40 years and organically inclined for just as long, but he has more than a green thumb.
“I’m very conscious about organics and being green, but I like to call it bright green. A lot of green isn’t so green, it has a lot of petroleum wrapped around it,” Mr. Tobin said on a rainy afternoon this week at Eden Market and Garden Center in Vineyard Haven. “You are what you eat. If you eat good food, you’re good folk.”
Though the weather has been slow to warm, spring sports are heating up at the regional high school.
The boys’ lacrosse team took a 16-3 loss to Weston, last year’s number eight MIAA seed, in their first home game of the season. Playing tough nonleague opponents, however, is a crucial part of the lacrosse program, said head coach Chris Greene.
A historic change is in the works for West Tisbury if voters approve the sale of beer and wine at town restaurants and inns at the annual town meeting on Tuesday night.
A petitioned article championed by the owners of State Road Restaurant, the Lambert’s Cove Inn and the Plane View calls for the sale of beer and wine at restaurants with a seating capacity of 50 or more patrons.
The annual town meeting warrant which will be addressed by Tisbury voters on Tuesday night is one cut to the economic times, featuring none of the big-cost initiatives of recent years.
This is the year Tisbury abandoned its free-spending ways. There are no new fire stations this time around, no other big new projects, almost nothing of a discretionary nature. Infrastructure outlays are mostly confined to replacing that which is broken.
Next Thursday Oak Bluffs voters will elect two selectmen from a crowded field of five candidates. With a still-sputtering economy and town coffers running dry, each one is claiming the mantle of financial leadership.
This week the Gazette spoke with all five candidates.
Despite the town’s recent fiscal woes both incumbents touted their financial credentials and promised innovative measures both to raise revenue and cut spending in the years ahead.