Imagine a future in which you join a farm share program and receive, along with your in-season fruit, vegetables and flowers, cheap electricity.
A future where you receive a wider range of produce over a longer season, maybe even year-round, as greenhouses proliferate on those farms, taking advantage of that cheaper, price-stable, renewable energy.
Passenger traffic to the Vineyard on Steamship Authority ferries fell to its lowest level in more than a decade in March, more than 11 per cent below that for the same month last year.
Not since 1997, said SSA general manager Wayne Lamson, had fewer people visited for the month. And it was not only passenger numbers which plunged. The number of trucks coming and going — another key indicator of economic activity — was down almost eight per cent on the previous March.
Tisbury voters face a relatively straightforward task at their annual town election on Tuesday, with no particularly controversial ballot questions, and few election contests.
Polls will be open from noon to 8 p.m. at the American Legion Hall.
What would have been the major contest of the election — that of selectman — was decided some six weeks ago.
Tisbury attorney Geoghan Coogan had planned to run against the incumbent, Denys Wortman, but when Mr. Wortman heard of it, he promptly decided not to re-contest the seat.
Having mandated health coverage for all Massachusetts residents, the state government now is preparing to remove funding from groups dedicated to ensuring it happens, including $50,000 from the Vineyard Health Care Access program.
The $27.4 billion budget proposed yesterday by state lawmakers makes no provision for ongoing funding for the MassHealth Outreach grant program, which previously provided some $3.5 million a year to aid the operations of organizations across the state, dedicated to steering people through the complexities of health insurance.
Like a drunk stuck in a revolving door, Tisbury voters find themselves going around and around again because of beer and wine.
They have been stuck in that door for four years already, but at the second night of the annual town meeting on Wednesday night, they decided to go around for at least another year.
An apparently routine amendment to a Tisbury bylaw about keeping dogs on leashes dominated proceedings at a special town meeting Tuesday.
Laurie Clements, Tisbury animal control officer, just wanted to simplify the existing scale of fines for owners who failed to keep their dogs leashed in public. But the debate made it all seem anything but simple.
It took almost 25 minutes, a lot of explaining, a lot of spirited and confused discussion, three amendments and five votes before the meeting finished dealing with the issue.
