p> The voters of West Tisbury will get to decide whether or not to approve the Mill Pond committee’s article number 13 on the warrant for the annual town meeting on Tuesday, April 10. The committee would like to pursue grant funding for a dredging project at the Mill Pond, owned by the town.

The sound of gavels banging will be heard around the Island when the annual town meeting season begins with our own version of Super Tuesday, as voters in Tisbury, West Tisbury, Edgartown and Oak Bluffs gather to conduct the annual business of their towns. Town reports and paper warrants will be stacked on laps, the soft clack of knitting needles will be heard in the back of the room and moderators will call the meetings to order.

Annual town meetings will follow in Chilmark on April 23 and in Aquinnah on May 8.

From Gazette editions of April, 1937:

Four three-masted schooners crossed Vineyard Haven harbor mouth early Monday, all being in sight from the shore at once. This is a rare sight in these days of steamers, but skippers of these coasters report that strikes of steamers’ crews and freight handlers have brought a number of schooners out of their retirement and into traffic once more.

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Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

To Edgartown residents and Edgartown board of selectmen.

Despite its reputation as a playground of the rich and famous, Martha’s Vineyard has a year-round population that is one of the poorest in the Commonwealth. With its seasonal economy and high cost of living, the Island can be a difficult place to live. Fortunately, there are people, and organizations, that have been helping Islanders get by for many years.