A week after a public hearing that saw the abutters of Nip ’n’ Tuck Farm in West Tisbury plead with the town zoning board of appeals to shut down a dirt bike track on the farm, owners Fred and Betsy Fisher have decided to shut the track down themselves.

Tisbury selectmen have confirmed the town will abide by the existing funding arrangements for MVTV, thus ending a week of confused speculation that Tisbury could pull its support for the Island’s community broadcaster.

The concerns were fueled by comments from Tisbury’s Department of Public Works director, Fred LaPiana, indicating that the town could claim the $80,000 a year which now goes to MVTV on its behalf, and siphon some or all of the money off for other projects.

Democratic Delegates

To elect delegates to the state Democratic convention in June the West Tisbury Democratic town committee will be having a caucus on Saturday, Feb. 12th at 10 a.m. at the Up-Island Council on Aging, 1042 State Road, West Tisbury.

In order to vote and/or run for delegate, you must be both a registered Democrat and reside in town as of Dec. 31, 2010.

Elections will include three delegates and three alternates.

For more information, call Rufus Peebles at 508-693-5100.

A diver who was working with a private team to remove unexploded ordnance from beach areas around the Island was rescued on a remote Chappaquiddick beach in a driving snowstorm early Wednesday afternoon. Calls that went out over the Island communications center emergency radio network reported the man was unconscious when he was pulled from the water and resuscitated by a fellow diver at the scene.

The diver, whose name was not released by police, was working off the jetty at East Beach in the Cape Pogue Wildlife Refuge.

The All-Island School Committee voted to ratify a three-year agreement with Island school secretaries last Thursday, after nearly nine months of negotiating. Vineyard schools superintendent Dr. James H. Weiss said yesterday the contract, which is retroactive to July 1 of last year, will include no salary increases this year (2011), a two per cent increase next year and a 2.75 per cent increase the following year.