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Building Inspector Leaves Town Post
Embattled Richard Mavro Strikes Deal with Oak Bluffs Selectmen to Depart; Details Have Not Been Released
By RACHEL KOVAC
The town of Oak Bluffs will soon be looking for a new building inspector. After a 16-year tenure, embattled building inspector Richard Mavro has reached an agreement with the town and has left the position.
He had already showered and taken the dog out for a walk by the time he realized the pain in his chest was serious enough to bother disturbing his wife, who was fast asleep.
West Tisbury Landowner Tells Tax Board Town Valuations Rooted in Faulty System
By IAN FEIN
West Tisbury resident William W. Graham testified in a legal hearing last week that town assessors overvalued his land by more than $30 million, a figure that resulted in an alleged overpayment of more than $300,000 in property taxes for 2003 and 2004.
It's the dinner hour on Tuesday night, and Luanne Johnson is
tromping through poison ivy and switch grass on the duney hills of
Aquinnah's north shore, holding a fold-out antenna in one hand, a
receiver in the other and hoping she will find her quarry: a skunk named
Pua.
One year after unveiling plans for the costliest construction
project and most ambitious fund-raising goal in Vineyard history,
leaders at the Martha\'s Vineyard Hospital announced this week that
they have amassed a stunning $20 million in pledged donations, nearly
half the $42 million needed to build a new hospital at the Linton Lane
campus in Oak Bluffs.
One year after unveiling plans for the costliest construction project and most ambitious fund-raising goal in Vineyard history, leaders at the Martha's Vineyard Hospital announced this week that they have amassed a stunning $20 million in pledged donations, nearly half the $42 million needed to build a new hospital at the Linton Lane campus in Oak Bluffs.