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Tammy and Rick Freer of West Tisbury announce the birth of a daughter, Ellis Alexandra Freer, born on Dec. 13, 2010, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Ellis weighed 7 pounds, 10 ounces at birth. Big brother Jack and big sister Auden welcome their baby sister.
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Martha’s Vineyard renters and mortgage-holders are under extraordinary financial pressure, with a majority shelling out more than 30 per cent of their household income on housing, new figures from the U.S. Census Bureau show.
Census figures based on samples taken from 2005 to 2009 were released on Tuesday. The numbers take in both boom and bust years in the American economy, suggesting they may spruce up the worst of the recession’s effects.
There was no triumphalism about Dan Wolf’s first visit with the Democratic party faithful of the Vineyard after he won his state senate seat last month. Quite the reverse.
After a heated debate drew passionate pleas from both sides, Edgartown voters said no to leaving the Martha’s Vineyard Commission at a special town meeting Tuesday night, indefinitely postponing an article that would have taken the first steps to withdraw from the regional land use commission.
A total of 305 registered voters packed the Old Whaling Church for the special town meeting led by longtime moderator Philip J. Norton Jr.
In the coming weeks West Tisbury school leaders and town officials will meet to tackle a growing problem with unanticipated repairs to the West Tisbury elementary school whose price tag has now climbed to nearly $1.2 million.
And there is no clear plan yet about who will pay for it — the school district, the town, or some combination of the two.