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Caitlyn Clark of Vineyard Haven has been named to the dean’s list at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
On a balmy afternoon sometime in the 1970s, 19-year-old Cindy Kane found herself sailing across the Kansas countryside in the cockpit of a sailboat. But this was not a dream or hallucinatory acid trip (it was the seventies after all). The sailboat rested on the back of a large semi hauling boats cross-country. Ms. Kane, after graduating from high school early and eschewing college, had hitched a ride from the trucker.
It could be a walk in the park, or rather the sculpture garden, for West Tisbury residents at the annual town meeting, after selectmen signed the final purchase and sale agreement for acquiring the Field Gallery on Wednesday.
“It needs to be understood,” selectman Cynthia Mitchell said, “the purchase and sale agreement is essentially keeping the deal in place so the town can vote on it. It’s not the selectmen agreeing to go forward without the support of the town.”
Tisbury voters will face the task of cleaning up old messes on a number of fronts at this year’s special town meeting, on Tuesday.
Wastewater which used to be dumped into the waters around the Island, garbage disposal on shore, neglected and abandoned buildings in town, people who don’t shovel their sidewalks after it snows, the consequences of profligate energy use: These are the literal messes.
A study into the mooted amalgamation of the Tisbury and Oak Bluffs police departments has concluded that a merger would produce a better standard of policing and could save the towns close to $500,000 a year.
The MMA Consulting Group report, delivered to the towns this week, looked at options for greater cooperation between the towns’ police departments, ranging from limited sharing of some services to full amalgamation. It recommended amalgamation.
Facing two separate lawsuits alleging he misused funds, Edgartown attorney Edward W. (Peter) Vincent Jr. has had his bank accounts frozen and liens totalling $700,000 attached to his South Water street residence and other assets.
The cases also have prompted complaints alleging misconduct by Mr. Vincent to the state body that oversees lawyers, which is investigating, and to the Edgartown police department, which has opened an investigation into whether there is cause for criminal charges.