News
Tisbury police are investigating a nighttime burglary at the Green Room in downtown Vineyard Haven Sunday night in which someone broke through a side door on the basement level and stole money from a cash register and donations canister and several items of clothing.
The season’s first significant northeaster dumped snow on the mainland and shut down transportation, keeping many home, or away from home. March came in like a lion and gave Island school children one more day off before school resumed after the winter break. And many who spent the weekend trying to get back to the Island after a break, spent more time at the airport.
Buses between Boston and Woods Hole were cancelled all day on Monday.
Kindergarten Registration
Tisbury parents of a children who will be five years of age on or before Sept. 1, 2009, are asked to register their child for kindergarten. Call Barbara Armstrong at 508-696-6500 between now and April 3 to request a pre-registration packet and to set up a registration appointment. Registration will be on Thursday, April 16.
The taxpayers of Tisbury have been warned they will have to come up with some $1.5 million each year for the next 30 years to meet their currently-unfunded liabilites to town employees.
The huge figure is contained in a comprehensive analysis, carried out by Jon Snyder of the town’s finance and advisory committee, of the problem posed by the failure of Tisbury — and other Martha’s Vineyard towns and regional entities — to provide for health insurance and other post-retirement benefits.
At a time when the crumbling national economy is forcing many Vineyard families to seek bargains on kids’ clothing, toys and games, both Island thrift stores have been forced to throw away nearly their entire inventory of children’s items due to a new federal law designed to protect children from lead products.
Gas
And now, more good news on the proposed gas tax. A group that includes the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce doesn’t think 19 cents is enough; they’d like to make it 25 cents. Still another group thinks 29 cents sounds just right. At either 25 or 29 cents, Massachusetts will have the highest gas tax in the country. Welcome, tourists!
Prices for regular unleaded gas as of Mar. 4:
Edgartown
Airport Mobil 2.699 Depot Corner 2.599
Edgartown Mobil 2.659