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Taxpayer Meeting
The Edgartown assessors will hold a meeting for taxpayers on Wednesday, Feb. 13 at 7 p.m. in the second floor meeting room of the town hall. Steve Ferreira, district manager of Vision Appraisal Technology, which provides assessing services to the town, will talk about the mass appraisal process and market changes that have occurred in the last few years in the town of Edgartown. More information is available by calling the assessors office at 508-627-6140.
From Chilmark to Oak Bluffs, Vineyard Haven to Edgartown, small family groups and boisterous bar parties celebrated Super Bowl Sunday as an annual
Correction
A story in last week’s Gazette about a traffic fatality inaccurately described the collision impact between a car driven by Brandy Marie Gibson and a van driven by Francellyo C. Dias. The vehicle driven by Ms. Gibson, who died in the crash, struck the van driven by Mr. Francellyo. Also, due to incorrect information contained in the police press release, the story reported inaccurately on the direction Ms. Gisbon was traveling at the time of the accident. She was traveling east toward Edgartown. The Gazette regrets the errors.
When cruise ships arrive off Oak Bluffs in late summer, passengers interested in taking a sightseeing tour of the Vineyard are directed to one bus company, Island Transport Inc. and offered the opportunity to buy their sightseeing tickets while still on board.
As the passengers arrive onshore, they board Island Transport buses and are taken on a tour of the Vineyard which includes stops at Gay Head Cliffs in Aquinnah and downtown Edgartown.
Police this week continued their investigation into a traffic accident at the intersection of County and Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Roads last Tuesday that claimed the life of a 20-year-old Island woman and left two others seriously injured.
Oak Bluffs police are still waiting for a report from a state accident reconstruction team. Police have also subpoenaed hospital records and are waiting for the results of toxicology tests on the two drivers involved in the accident.
The Martha’s Vineyard Commission last Thursday heard emotional testimony from an Edgartown property owner opposed to new guidelines for the protection and maintenance of five ancient pathways in Edgartown, each of which dates back to colonial times.
Benjamin Hall Jr., an Island attorney whose family owns land off Ben Tom’s Road, one of the ways that would fall under the proposed guidelines, said they had been hastily drafted and would deny his family the right to develop their property.