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Hello, Ian
Elizabeth and Joseph Jims of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a son, Ian Schmidt Cuunningham Jims, born April 4 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Ian weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces at birth. He joins his sister, Ingrid.
Corrections
A caption beneath a photograph accompanying coverage in last Friday’s Gazette of the Chilmark annual town meeting misidentified a man listening to debate over a proposed Coast Guard tower on Peaked Hill. The man pictured in the photograph was Andy Goldman.
In light of climate change and rising fuel costs, there is a push by some members of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School committee to limit car use at the high school, with one particular member calling for an outright ban on student vehicle use.
The committee instructed the school council to brainstorm ideas for reducing car use and to report back in October.
The advent of spring on the Vineyard brings with it the welcome return of things like warm weather, the majestic osprey and the running of the herring. But it also signals the return of several less celebrated Island traditions, including traffic jams, tick bites — and those dreaded traffic tickets.
Island emergency officials were inundated with calls from concerned residents Wednesday afternoon after a haze of smoke and ash descended on the Island from a brush fire on Noman’s Land, the small uninhabited island off the southern coast of Chilmark.
The fire was part of a controlled burn started by the U.S. Navy to clear away underbrush and expose unexploded ordinances left on Noman’s during training exercises over the past five decades. Noman’s Land is part of the town of the town of Chilmark, but is owned by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
BOSTON — Two property assessors working on behalf of the town of West Tisbury lied to justify new valuations in an exclusive neighborhood of the town, resulting in land owned by William W. Graham being overvalued by $24 million dollars, the Massachusetts Appeals Court was told this week.
Counsel representing Mr. Graham, John Stevens, is seeking to have the court overturn a decision by the Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board last year, which upheld with only minor variation the assessors’ original valuation of Mr. Graham’s property.