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Edgartown voters returned incumbent William Erickson to a three-year term on the town water commission Thursday in an annual town election that was remarkable for its dearth of contested races.
A total of 449 voters turned out, 14.5 per cent of the 3,094 registered.
In an under-the-radar contest for the finance committee write-in Barbara Shriber beat out Malcolm Reed, an incumbent who was running as a write-in having missed the deadline for filing. Ms. Shriber won 82 votes to Mr. Reed’s 37.
West Tisbury voters returned longtime assessor Michael Colaneri to another three-year term in an annual town election that saw a light turnout yesterday. Mr. Colaneri prevailed 305 to 239 over challenger Jonathan Revere, who came within 10 votes of beating Mr. Colaneri three years ago.
A total of 570 voters turned out, 26 per cent of those registered.
Mr. Colaneri thanked the voters for their support last night.
“I’m very pleased with the result,” he said. Mr. Revere could not be reached for comment.
It is a game played by old men and young boys, by professionals and amateurs alike, at the dawn of spring and at the coming of winter. On the Vineyard, the game of baseball has been played by farmers, sailors, fishermen and businessmen, in Menemsha meadows and makeshift diamonds at Waban Park in Oak Bluffs, Toomey Field in Chilmark and Veterans Park in Tisbury.
The Martha’s Vineyard Museum has temporarily suspended its capital campaign which began six years ago with a price tag of $35 million, as a job search begins to replace executive director Keith Gorman.
He will step down at the end of the coming summer after just over a year on the job.
“It’s a family thing,” said Mr. Gorman this week, who has commuted for four years between the Vineyard and North Carolina where his wife Cheryl Roberts studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Thomas Edison captured the first Hawaiian surfing footage in 1906, but surfing films became part of surfing culture in the the 1960s and ’70s, when classic surfing films used to tour the country. Now California filmmaker Thomas Campbell (The Seedling, Sprout) carries on the tradition, eschewing video to shoot his features in beautifully rich 16 mm film. His latest, The Present, will screen on Martha’s Vineyard for one night only, on Sunday, April 26, at 7 p.m. at the Capawock Theatre in Vineyard Haven.
Gas
Prices for regular unleaded gas as of Apr. 15:
Edgartown
Airport Mobil $2.699 Depot Corner $2.699
Edgartown Mobil $2.759
Oak Bluffs
deBettencourt’s $2.659
Jim’s $2.679
Vineyard Haven
Citgo $2.659
Tisbury Shell $2.699
West Tisbury
Up-Island Automotive $2.559
Menemsha
Menemsha Texaco $2.599