Julia Rappaport
Acting with dispatch, Chilmark voters at a special town meeting Monday night amended zoning bylaws, approved design money for a building on the Menemsha harborfront, endorsed a complicated conservation land swap and paid some miscellaneous bills.
Marsha Winsryg first went to Africa over a decade ago. She went armed with curiosity and a passport. She came back with friends, photographs and a big box of carved figurines she had promised a young merchant she would sell in the United States before sending the profit back to his small crafting village in Zambia.
After a screening committee tasked with reviewing and narrowing applications for the new county manager position told county commissioners they would not proceed with applications received thus far — and asked the commissioners to readvertise the position — the commissioners last week took over the search themselves.
By yesterday, the search had narrowed to three finalists.
For the second week in a row, Chilmark selectmen on Tuesday addressed the continuing struggles of commercial fishermen on the Menemsha harborfront and the state of the town fishing industry.
A number of fishermen, members of the shellfish advisory committee and the town harbor master turned out to discuss rising fuel prices and hear a plan to survey the biology of Menemsha Pond in an effort to enhance fish stock.
At a special town meeting on Monday Chilmark voters will face a slew of town spending requests ranging from money for repairs on the fire station, police station and Squibnocket beach parking lot to design work for a new building on Menemsha harbor.
The meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Chilmark Community Center. Moderator Everett H. Poole will preside over the session.
Theo Epstein is a walking American dream. Growing up nearly within earshot of Fenway Park, he played, studied and dreamed baseball before the Boston Red Sox hired him as their general manager in 2002. At 28, he was the youngest general manager in the history of Major League Baseball and the envy of little boys — and grown men — nationwide. Baseball may be the American tradition and Mr. Epstein’s job an American dream, but neither the tradition nor the dream would quite say America without an ice cold beer.