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The Tri-Town Ambulance service is requesting a 60 per cent increase for their budget next year due to a new state mandate that requires full-time paramedics for the service.
If all three towns — Chilmark, West Tisbury and Aquinnah — approve the hike, the cost of the service will go up $275,420, from an operating budget of $452,995 to one of $728,415.
Swimmers, take your mark.
It’s been 20 years in the making, but Vineyarders will finally be able to hear those words ring out through the aquatic center on Sunday at the YMCA’s inaugural swim meet. The first Island swim team, the Makos, will take to the blocks at noon against the Nantucket Dolphins.
There are some positive aspects to being a new Democratic congressman after an election which saw a Republican landslide. Yesterday the new representative for the Vineyard, William Keating, enumerated a few.
For one, he said it does not take long to get to know your fellow freshmen party members.
“There are only nine of us,” he said yesterday, the day after he was sworn in.
“That’s the lowest number since 1915. So it just makes sense the nine of us would become close very quickly. And we have,” he said, adding:
The real estate market on the Vineyard appears to be showing signs of life, according to the most recent data from the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank.
Land bank revenues are up for the first six months of the fiscal year, even though the number of sales remains relatively flat.
Stela Arrives
Ena Thulin and Plamen Dunchev of West Tisbury announce the birth of a daughter, Stela Plamenova Duncheva, born on Jan. 1, 2011, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Stela weighed 7 pounds at birth.
A chimney fire on Pennywise Path in Edgartown last Tuesday destroyed a bedroom and has forced a family out of their home for the next month. The fire broke out in between the chimney and wall of Lisa and Herb Tilton’s home around 3 a.m., engulfing the house in smoke.