The loose ends of Tisbury’s three-day-long town meeting last week will be tied in the ballot box next Tuesday, as voters revisit eight Proposition 2 1/2 override requests. The selectmen put all non-emergency expenditures over $10,000 on override questions this year, but because the bulk of the spending and borrowing items failed on town meeting floor, the main focus for voters next week will be a single contested race for town selectman.

Ownership of the Chappaquiddick ferry clearly seems a good deal to a lot of people, judging by the offers Roy Hayes has received since he revealed that he is looking to sell after 19 years.

It’s not hard to see why someone would want the business — a monopoly service with an assured and growing demand.

High School Budget Must Be Redone

By JULIA WELLS

The Martha's Vineyard Regional High School budget now goes back to the drawing board.

This is the next step following the vote in Oak Bluffs this week to reduce its high school assessment by some $400,000. The vote capped months of debate among Island towns over regional school assessments, which were thrown into a state of widespread confusion because of a 14-year-old state law that for unknown reasons had never been enforced on the Vineyard until this year.

Voters in West Tisbury Decide Against School District Pullout

By IAN FEIN

In a strong show of support for the value of regional education, West Tisbury voters at their annual town meeting this week opted to stay in the Up-Island Regional School District and fully fund their share of the $7.5 million district budget.

The two votes went against the recommendations of the town finance committee, which has long been a critic of district finances.

When the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) broke ground on a community center building in the spring of 2004, tribal leaders envisioned it as

Tisbury voters cheered like they had just landed after a turbulent flight when the last warrant article came up just before the stroke of midnight last night, wrapping up three days and about ten and a half hours of annual town meeting, which began on Tuesday.