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Islanders go the polls in the state primary on Tuesday to cast votes that will help choose Democratic and Republican candidates to run for the Massachusetts seat in the U.S. Senate left vacant in August when longtime Sen. Edward M. Kennedy — who held the seat for 46 years — died after a 14-month battle with brain cancer.
Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. in every town.
The Island Food Pantry, the organization that provides free food for the needy, had its busiest day ever on Wednesday. Seventy-one visitors came for food at the center, in the basement of the Christ United Methodist Church, the stone church in downtown Vineyard Haven.
Compared with the distance it had already come, the little turtle’s voyage from Martha’s Vineyard to Woods Hole was short. The only unusual thing was, it went by ferry.
Shellbey, the juvenile Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle, was in bad shape, you see. Made lethargic by cold and battered by the weekend’s storm, it was washed up injured on the Island’s north shore.
Tisbury residents will vote Tuesday on whether to take on some $7 million in new debt, and a consequent rise in their property taxes.
The election ballot includes five Proposition 2 1/2 questions — four of them relating to funding for the town’s proposed new emergency services facility — corresponding to articles voted on at last month’s special town meeting.
A plan to build a distributed antenna system to boost cell phone coverage in the three up-Island towns took a step forward this week when Aquinnah and Chilmark approved plans by American Tower Company to build the system. Approval came during a four-hour meeting between the towns on Monday at the Chilmark Community Center.
But the plans took a step backwards when Aquinnah officials determined the vote by the planning board review committee was invalid because only five of seven members were present.
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