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The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School district committee meeting ended abruptly on Monday night following a peculiar exchange when several committee members refused to talk about the nonrenewal of an assistant principal’s contract in open or executive session.
When the committee began to discuss the hiring process for a new assistant principal to replace Neal Weaver, committee member Jeffrey (Skipper) Manter raised questions about the need for a replacement.
Affordable Housing
Homebuyers interested in applying for four affordable homes being built by the Island Housing Trust off Lambert’s Cove Road in Tisbury can obtain applications at the Vineyard Housing Office (346 State Road, Vineyard Haven), by calling 508-693-4419, or online at ihtmv.org/applications.shtml.
Application submission deadline is May 28.
Welcome, William
Heather and John Hoff of West Tisbury announce the birth of their son, William Michael Hoff, on April 6 at Brigham and Women’s in Boston. William weighed 7 pounds, 8 ounces. He joins his sisters Margaret and Elizabeth and brother John.
When the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) were unceremoniously disbanded in 1944, Ann Lesnikowski of Vineyard Haven was told to go home, with no explanation or money for transportation. In the decades that followed, the memory of the first female military pilots was either forgotten or deliberately obscured. But on March 10 at a ceremony at the United States Capitol Ms. Lesnikowski and her remaining fellow WASPs finally received their due: a congressional gold medal, the highest civilian award in the country. “It was a long 60 years coming,” she said.
When Tisbury voters convene for their annual town meeting on Tuesday, they will consider a town budget cut for economically difficult times.
Sure, the bottom line will be an increase of almost $450,000 or five per cent, but almost all that increase is attributable to two items, debt servicing cost and the town’s contribution to the regional high school. Take those out of the equation, said finance director Tim McLean, and the cost of everything else has increased by almost nothing.
The meeting begins at 7 p.m. in the elementary school gymnasium.
West Tisbury voters will face a 48-article warrant at the annual town meeting Tuesday that includes a controversial request to fund an engineering study for dredging the Mill Pond, $150,000 in Community Preservation Act spending to restore the First Congregational Church and a $13.2 million budget for the coming year.