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Lily Reid Arrives
Skye MacDuff and Richard J. Kerns of West Tisbury announce the birth of a daughter, Lily Reid Kerns, born March 15 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Lily weighed 8 pounds and 9 ounces at birth.
If the winter season has left a desire for anything, it is fresh produce. With spring seeds already in the ground, the first harvests are practically around the corner. But, there is still time to sign up for a full or seasonal share with the Whippoorwill Farm Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program.
For a flat fee paid up front at the beginning of the season, members of the community can buy a share in the farm’s harvest for the season. A full share is $700. A 10-week share costs $420, with a five-week share priced at $210.
In nine years’ experience running Tisbury town meeting, moderator Deborah Medders has noticed one type of warrant article which really gets people going is proposed changes to zoning bylaws. And so it was again this week.
The Tisbury special town meeting on Tuesday went pretty smoothly for the most part, until it came to two arcane, and, it must be said — for many people at the meeting said it — hard-to-comprehend proposed changes to zoning regulations.
Aquinnah taxpayers will open their mail eagerly next week.
Most will see up to a 19.4 per cent reduction in taxes.
The town’s tax rate is falling from $4.03 per $1,000 assessed valuation last year to $3.25 per $1,000 for the current year.
Assistant assessor Angela Cywinski received verbal approval from the state department of revenue this week of the new rate and expects to mail tax bills on Monday.
Third and fourth tax payments and applications for abatements are due at town hall on May 1.
High Honors
Headmaster Jay Stroud of Tabor Academy has named Edgartown student Alex Nugent, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Nugent, to the high honors list for the first semester of the 2007-2008 academic year.
Chocolate, a pair of running shoes and you: the first Hot Cocoa 5K Run and Walk for the Safe Haven Project, an event where all proceeds go directly to the spring camp, is set for April 20.
The run will be the kick-off event of this year’s Safe Haven camp, which brings children with HIV and AIDS together for a week away from judgment on Martha’s Vineyard.
The race begins at 10 a.m. on the first full day of camp, April 20, followed by cocoa, cookout and celebration at the finish line with this year’s campers.