In the face of town fines accruing at the rate of $300 a day, the Garde family of Tisbury has renewed its legal fight to keep its three delinquent husky dogs.
Last week the family patriarch, Kenneth C. Garde, filed a motion for a stay of execution against an order made by the Edgartown district court, requiring compliance with last October’s order of the Tisbury selectmen which banned the dogs from town for repeated escapes and poultry-killing incidents.
For the second time in six months, the Dukes County Regional Housing Authority has been unable to make its payments to landlords involved in its subsidized housing program.
But the executive director of the authority, David Vigneault, said yesterday he remained hopeful of making at least a partial payment within days.
In a press release late last Thursday, the due day for payment of some $20,000 to the owners of 35 properties, the authority said it had run out of money and could not make its April commitment.
When Tisbury voters convene for their annual town meeting on Tuesday, they will consider a town budget cut for economically difficult times.
Sure, the bottom line will be an increase of almost $450,000 or five per cent, but almost all that increase is attributable to two items, debt servicing cost and the town’s contribution to the regional high school. Take those out of the equation, said finance director Tim McLean, and the cost of everything else has increased by almost nothing.
The meeting begins at 7 p.m. in the elementary school gymnasium.
For the second time in six months, the Dukes County Regional Housing Authority has been unable to make its payments to landlords involved in its subsidized housing program.
In a statement released late on Thursday, the due day for payment of some $20,000 to the owners of 35 properties, the authority said it had run out of money and could not make its April commitment.
It had begun contacting all landlords and tenants to let them know.
Adam Moore, executive director of the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation, brought the truck to a stop on the narrow, sandy Quansoo Road and got out to admire an old gnarled oak.
An odd tree. Squat. Its trunk almost as wide as it is high and hollow. Branches twisted and broken by the wind which whips across the flat sandplain.
But it survived the wind, survived the impoverished soil. And survived the earthmoving equipment which recently finished making this new road.
The long-held vision of a connector road to bypass one of the Island’s worst traffic spots, the Edgartown-State Road intersection in Tisbury, might finally be just one town meeting vote away from realization.
This Tuesday’s Tisbury special town meeting will be asked to approve construction of the bypass, and work could begin within months. Voters also will be asked to authorize the board of selectmen to apply for funding, so, with a little luck, the project can be completed at no further cost to town residents.
