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Tisbury voters will be asked to defy the weak economy and spend big at a special town meeting Tuesday night. Articles on the warrant call for spending more than $7 million.
The bulk of it, $6.8 million in new borrowing, is earmarked for the construction, equipping and furnishing of the town’s long-planned and sorely needed new emergency services building.
And the figure in the article is only an estimate, although a more accurate figure will be available by the time of the meeting. Bids for the project are due to be opened today.
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The Martha’s Vineyard Commission has been promised the final say over all wind power developments in Island waters, following a concerted campaign by all levels of Vineyard local government against a state plan earmarking them for commercial wind generation.
This was the message delivered to the Island from Ian Bowles, state Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, this week through the Cape and Islands legislative delegation.
Six thousand years ago, according to native legend and scientific calculation, Nantucket Sound was dry land, and people probably lived and hunted and fished there. Until global warming caused the sea to rise and cover the place.
Ironically, the fact of that long-ago drowning now has become the basis of the latest challenge to the Cape Wind proposal to build a wind farm in Nantucket Sound. The big selling point of Cape Wind is that it would generate power without contributing to global warming, sea level rise and coastal flooding.
Two men were arrested on felony drug charges on Tuesday as they were stepping off the ferry in Vineyard Haven, the latest in a series of major drug busts over the past year involving suspects either caught selling drugs here or trying to bring large amounts of heroin to the Vineyard.
The Martha’s Vineyard Drug Task Force, working in conjunction with the Tisbury and Massachusetts State Police, arrested Jose Luis Arias, 29, of Jamaica Plain, and Wilken Ariaz-Baez, 24, at about 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday soon after they arrived on the boat and climbed into a taxicab.
If is true that the third time is a charm, then town leaders in Aquinnah may see their long hours of hard work on a wind energy bylaw pay off when they bring it in front of voters at a special town meeting on Tuesday night.
Rejected twice by Aquinnah voters at town meetings in the past two years, the bylaw has been shortened, reworked and rewritten to make it more readable.