Tisbury voters will have a clear choice next Tuesday as Tom Pachico and Jon Snyder square off for an open seat on the town board of selectmen. In one corner is an outspoken and defiantly proud lifelong Islander with decades of service to the town; in the other, a professed budget hawk and town finance committee veteran with a background in high finance. The two disagree on almost every issue.
The polls will be open from noon to 8 p.m. on Tuesday at the American Legion Hall.
If this year isn’t the driest on record for the Vineyard, it is certainly one of the driest, according to meteorologists. So far the Vineyard has received just over eight inches of precipitation through Tuesday, about half its yearly average over the same time period.
The unusual conditions have meant an elevated risk of brush and other fires, and the Vineyard has been part of a fire weather advisory for the region for much of the past few weeks.
New Bedford civic leaders this week doubled down on their push to have the Steamship Authority begin summer freight service between their city and the Vineyard, despite a detailed analysis from SSA senior managers that shows the service would be inefficient and prohibitively expensive.
At the monthly boat line meeting held in New Bedford Tuesday, SSA governor and board chairman John Tierney led the charge for freight service between the whaling city and the Island.
On Wednesday Sam Feldman pulled up a picture of a bathing beauty on his iPad. It was his wife, Gretchen, when she was only 20, the year he met her.
“So, that’s why I was sad and lonely,” he said lingering over the picture before putting it away. “Is that a good enough reason?”
Mrs. Feldman died in 2008, leaving Mr. Feldman adrift and alone for the first time in decades.
New Bedford civic leaders this week doubled down on their push to have the Steamship Authority begin summer freight service between their city and the Vineyard, despite a detailed analysis from SSA senior managers that shows the service would be both impractical and prohibitively expensive.
At the monthly boat line meeting held in New Bedford Tuesday, SSA governor and board chairman John Tierney led the charge for freight service between the Whaling City and the Island.
At Coffee Obsession in Woods Hole on Wednesday morning, Dr. David Gallo, director of special projects at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), thumbed through the pictures on his iPad. But they weren’t of family members or far-flung vacations. Instead he pulled up a high-resolution photo mosaic he took of the RMS Titanic, settled in its lonely repose at the bottom of the Atlantic.
