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It’s spring cleaning time in Edgartown, and voters at the annual town meeting Tuesday will take up a 63-article warrant that calls for repairs to town roadways and walkways, restoration of historic buildings, the replacement of several town vehicles and a fresh start for renovating and expanding the town library.
The meeting is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. at the Old Whaling Church. Moderator Philip J. Norton Jr. will preside over the meeting.
Oak Bluffs voters will face a new round of tough financial decisions at the annual town meeting Tuesday, beginning with a $24.7 million operating budget that the town may or may not be able to afford, and ending with a dozen override questions totaling $647,000 that put voters between a rock and a hard place: pay more taxes or do without.
One letter at a time. That was the drill on Wednesday morning this week as the nameplate went up over the entrance to the new Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. A Columbia Construction worker was perched on a ladder to do the job, while project manager Connie Bulman looked on, standing in an empty parking lot awash in unseasonably warm April sunshine. It was one of a flurry of final touches underway as the hospital prepares for its grand opening on Saturday night and Sunday morning this weekend.
Stewards of Our Island: Local Concerns. Local Solutions. That is the theme of this year’s Wampanoag Environmental Health Consumer Expo 2010, slated for Saturday, April 10, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School. The Expo is open to the entire Island community, free of charge. There’s an exhibitor hall going up in the cafeteria, with representatives from public health, healthy housing, local non-profit environmental organizations, green businesses and others, covering a range of environmental health issues.
The bunny arrived just a little late at the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard to be adopted in time for Easter, but he is there in his own special roll-around cage; it’s a beauty and so is Romeo, white with striking black spots, a very unusual bunny.
Unbeknownst to most, the story of The Little Mermaid predates the 1989 animated classic by more than 150 years. The real story is a bit more complex and a great deal darker than the Disneyfied version we all know and love, and this weekend students at the West Tisbury school will offer their own interpretation.
Once on This Island Jr., is an adaptation of a Broadway musical based on the novel My Love, My Love, by Rosa Guy, which is in turn an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, first published in 1837.