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With a special town meeting to cut a quarter million dollars from the current fiscal year budget in Oak Bluffs already scheduled for Feb. 22, on Tuesday selectmen turned their attention to the 2012 budget where the situation is even worse, with a $1.1 million projected deficit.
At the outset selectmen voted to approve a hiring freeze for the coming year, a move that will save the town $300,000.
But whether town leaders will need to ask voters for a Proposition 2 1/2 override remains an unsettled question.
After a year of negotiating with the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), the husband and wife team of Daniel Sauer and Wenonah Madison-Sauer signed a lease on Monday to take over Back Alley’s in West Tisbury.
The Sauers plan to operate a counter-service establishment with a focus on homemade, Island-grown food.
Pictures by Peter Simon
everyone in the pool: On Sunday, Feb. 6 the Makos swim team featuring young Vineyard swimmers took on the Marshfield Swim Club at the YMCA. This inaugural race came not long after the high school team baptized the pool with its first meet.
In both cases the Y pool area was packed with swimmers, parents and friends. Still more peered from the windows above the pool, looking out from the fitness room or the communal area at the entrance.
In an incident that has reverberated among fishermen up the East Coast, more than 10 tons of illegally caught striped bass were confiscated by environmental police in Maryland over the last two weeks.
Mom, Meet Dad Again
Just in time for Valentine’s Day weekend, the Martha’s Vineyard Ecumenical Youth Group is hosting a parents’ night out.
The particulars are basic. Tonight, Feb. 11, starting at 6:30 p.m. drop off your kids, ages three and up, at the Federated Church at 45 South Summer street in Edgartown. Come back to pick them up at 10 p.m.
The last day to reserve daffodils from the American Cancer Society Daffodil Days program is Friday, Feb. 25.
For a $10 gift, donors receive a bouquet of 10 fresh daffodil blossoms. Daffodils will be delivered across Martha’s Vineyard on Tuesday, March 15.
Dorothy Bangs, the longtime Daffodil Days volunteer coordinator on the Vineyard, said “Winning the fight against cancer starts right here in our community.”