Chilmark Plan Draws Scrutiny

Selectmen Affirm Commitment to Middle Line Road Proposal; Resident Comment Continues on Details of Project Design

By IAN FEIN

There are no affordable housing roadblocks in Chilmark, town officials declared this week.

Community Preservation Comes Before Taxpayers at Annual Town Meeting

By JAMES KINSELLA
Gazette Senior Writer

Abbe Burt looks at initiatives such as the Community Preservation Act and the Community Housing Bank, and sees important ways of addressing the Vineyard's lack of affordable housing.

Richard Combra, an Oak Bluffs selectman, looks at the same initiatives and sees another tax on Island residents.

Blueprint Ready, Oak Bluffs Board Seeks Money for Town Hall Plan

By JAMES KINSELLA

An Oak Bluffs town committee is prepared to recommend that taxpayers fund the design of a new town hall. Voters at the April 12 annual town meeting will be asked to approve borrowing $225,000 toward the town hall design. Should the town approve the design, and at a later town meeting approve its construction, the overall cost could come in around $5.4 million.

Refuse District Quells Turmoil

Board Decides Not to Privatize, Narrows the List of Candidates for Hiring Next Manager of Regional Operation

By IAN FEIN

After a long dispute about the future of the Island's four-town regional refuse district, board members said yesterday that they expect to hire a new manager by the end of the month.

Tisbury voters dispatched with special town meeting in one hour Tuesday night, endorsing the creation of a town dog park, the restoration of the hi

Annual Town Meeting Set for Next Week in Tisbury

By ALEXIS TONTI

For months Tisbury selectmen and Steamship Authority officials have sparred over how to use revenue collected through the passenger embarkation fee - now it is town residents' turn to have their say in the matter.

As part of the 27-article town meeting warrant, Vineyard Haven voters will decide next week whether to use that money to buy a $300,000 pumper truck for the fire department and a $30,000 cruiser for the police department.