Island Police Face Shortages
Island towns struggle to find enough police officers to fill shifts because of the high cost of housing. And the asparagus is up and the bees are back, ready to pollinate your garden.
Island towns struggle to find enough police officers to fill shifts because of the high cost of housing.
Chilmark voters will decide on nearly $750,000 in school overrides, new restrictions on leaf blowers and a raft of changes to town zoning bylaws at the annual town meeting next week.
Edgartown, Oak Bluffs and West Tisbury all voted Tuesday to phase out the use of gas-powered leaf blowers by 2028 in order to cut down on noise and emissions.
As the Vineyard approaches its annual town meeting season, a highly-debated bylaw aimed at curbing the noise of leaf blowers is on nearly every town’s warrant.
The Vineyard Conservation Society is leading the way to get regulations that would initially limit the time frames that landscapers could use gas-powered leaf blowers, before instituting a ban on the gas-powered machines by 2028.