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Tisbury voters this week approved spending almost $7 million to build a new emergency services building.
By a margin of 566 votes to 398 they endorsed the borrowing of $6.8 million to construct the new building on Spring street, opposite the Tisbury elementary school, on town land which is currently the site of the town hall annex.
And by a slightly smaller majority — 552 to 405 — they approved borrowing another $115,000 to temporarily relocate the annex.
The name dates back to the 1930s, when Addie Crist sewed and stuffed six red stockings full of Christmas treats for Island children who otherwise might have gone without presents. The stockings themselves are gone, but the name remains, and Ms. Crist’s legacy now resonates through many Island Christmas households, spreading charitable holiday cheer.
Rabbi Caryn Broitman is a wonderful mix of seeming contradictions. She is spirited yet self-contained, outspoken but soft-spoken, a calm bundle of energy. So it is fittingly ironic that Ms. Broitman, at her most vital in the role of rabbi for the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center, is about to take a break.
Or so it might appear. But in fact, the aim of Rabbi Broitman’s upcoming sabbatical is not to take a break from her identity as rabbi; it is to further embrace it.
A former West Tisbury school teacher accused of providing alcohol and pornographic materials to former students and hosting underage drinking parties at his home was found guilty on 10 felony charges this week following a two-day trial in Edgartown district court.
Driver’s education is back in the high school curriculum for next year, despite deep cuts in school revenues and pressure from finance committees to keep town assessments as low as possible. At their meeting Monday night, the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School district committee certified a high school budget for fiscal year 2011 with two notable changes from the budget principal Steve Nixon presented to the public last week.
People from around the world and across the country come to Martha’s Vineyard to spend a long weekend, enjoy a summer, or build a life. Many Island residents now hail from one country in particular, Brazil. Yet most of us know little about this South American country. History teacher Elaine Weintraub says this is true even of many of her Brazilian students.