West Tisbury Police

The West Tisbury police station planning and siting committee will hold a public meeting to present its work so far and to get public reaction to the sites and building needs identified for a new police station.

The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. on Jan. 11 at the Howes House in West Tisbury.

The committee will make a presentation and then take questions and record comments which will be included in their deliberations and final report which will be sent to the selectmen in early February.

The Massachusetts Department of Revenue has directed the town of Oak Bluffs to slash spending nearly $240,000 in the current budget in order to reduce a deficit that has plagued the town for two years. The town will schedule a special town meeting in the coming weeks to decide where it will trim the already strained budget.

Correction

Both the headline and text in a story in the Dec. 31 Gazette about two Aquinnah scallopers cited for possible violations contained inaccuracies. Wilde Whitcomb was not fishing without a license and in fact has a commercial scallop license issued by the town; the question to be decided by town counsel centers on Mr. Whitcomb’s residency status. The Gazette regrets the errors.

By virtue of his job, Tisbury ambulance coordinator Jeff Pratt is something of an expert on the hazards of winter.

The worst, he says, is when snow falls and is not cleared before the temperature falls, turning it to ice.

“Once or twice every single winter I can ever remember, we get a period where soft, wet snow turns to ice and the temperature doesn’t warm for many days,” he said. “Then there are so many falls.”

As political fault lines continue to undermine the struggling Edgartown library rebuilding project, the town selectmen have called a special meeting for Monday afternoon to address the problems.

The meeting will be held at 3:30 p.m. prior to the weekly selectmen’s meeting.

“This committee has been making bad decisions for six years,” declared Edgartown selectman Michael Donaroma, also a member of the library building committee, following a tense meeting with elected library trustees on Tuesday night.

Please Adopt Us

The holidays have come and gone and our most fervent wish for 2011 is for empty cages! It’s not because we don’t love all the animals, but we do want them to find homes. So we ask everyone who loves animals to come by the shelter and see what a wonderful, sweet group of cats we have just waiting to be adopted.