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An apparently routine amendment to a Tisbury bylaw about keeping dogs on leashes dominated proceedings at a special town meeting Tuesday.
Laurie Clements, Tisbury animal control officer, just wanted to simplify the existing scale of fines for owners who failed to keep their dogs leashed in public. But the debate made it all seem anything but simple.
It took almost 25 minutes, a lot of explaining, a lot of spirited and confused discussion, three amendments and five votes before the meeting finished dealing with the issue.
The Martha’s Vineyard Museum announced this week that executive director Keith Gorman has resigned.
Mr. Gorman, who took over as executive director in January 2008, will stay in his post through the end of the summer, a press release said.
“I will be forever appreciative of the opportunity to lead this organization and to work with such dedicated colleagues,” Mr. Gorman said in the press statement.
Mr. Gorman came to the museum as its first professionally trained archivist in June of 2005.
The Trustees of Reservations have a new superintendent for the management of the Chappaquiddick properties of Cape Pogue, Wasque, Mytoi and Norton Point Beach. David Babson of Island Pond, Vt., will assume his duties as of April 20. He is no stranger to Chappaquiddick: his family owns a cottage on Pip’n Road and he has spent part of each summer on Chappy since he was young.
A little sun, a little rain, temperatures hovering in the upper 40s and the wind blowing hard — it was perfect weather for the opening weekend of Vineyard Youth Soccer’s little-heralded, largely-accomplished and newly expanded travel program on the fields at the West Tisbury School.
The Island’s travel soccer teams kicked off the first round of the season with home openers against several teams from the South Coast Soccer League on Saturday.
Our Island Club, the consumer savings program that also raises monies for Island charities, has distributed its 2008 donations.
In the program’s three years, more than $85,000 had been distributed to over 140 organizations. The club includes more than 3,000 members who can save at more than 125 Island businesses.
Our Island Club is providing scholarships to Featherstone Center for the Arts, Permanent Endowment Fund of Martha’s Vineyard, the Farm Institute, Vineyard Nursing Association and Community Services/Early Childhood Development.
The U.S. Small Business Administration is reminding local businesses that Economic Injury Disaster Loans are still available to small businesses economically impacted by the fire in Tisbury that occurred on July 4, 2008.
“Businesses that suffered economic losses as a result of the disaster and want to apply for low-interest loans from the SBA are urged to do so before the May 15 deadline,” said Frank Skaggs, director of SBA Field Operations Center East.