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Farm Leadership Change
The Farm Institute announced this week that executive director Matthew Goldfarb and development director Rob Goldfarb, the dynamic sibling team that has helped put the institute on the map of rural agricultural teaching programs on the Vineyard and beyond, will leave the institute this summer to pursue new professional and family pursuits.
A state labor relations committee has settled a long-running contract dispute between the town of Tisbury and the union representing the police department that spans nearly three years and four different police chiefs.
The Jan. 28 decision from the Massachusetts Joint Labor Managements Committee for Municipal Police and Fire sides with the town on the central issue of a 3.5 per cent pay increase for patrol officers and police sergeants retroactive to July 1, 2007, the date the contract was supposed to have gone into effect.
Menemsha fishermen will face tighter regulations and higher costs this year, following a decision by a sharply divided Chilmark board of selectmen to require them to carry a $1 million liability insurance policy that names the town in the event of a claim.
They clog up windshields, cause temper tantrums and wind up costing Island residents a small fortune each year, but who knew those little purple parking tickets — the dreaded and despised staple of Vineyard summers — were such an important money-maker for the county? Plymouth County, that is.
Think Antarctica and you think snow. A vast and unending, featureless panorama of it.
Andrew McDonnell, a PhD student at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and MIT, traveled to the Palmer U.S. Research Station in Antarctica to see snow, but not on land. Instead Mr. McDonnell was interested in the timeless undersea blizzard of particulate matter known as marine snow, the ghostly detritus of animals that descends the water column, sometimes taking months to reach the bottom.
The following student achievement announcements were received by the Gazette.
Cape Cod Community College students Martha Abbot of Oak Bluffs and Melissa Boyce of Vineyard Haven were inducted into Phi Theta Kappa, the international academic honor society of associate degree-granting colleges.
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