In the coming weeks West Tisbury school leaders and town officials will meet to tackle a growing problem with unanticipated repairs to the West Tisbury elementary school whose price tag has now climbed to nearly $1.2 million.
And there is no clear plan yet about who will pay for it — the school district, the town, or some combination of the two.
The Denniston house was issued a stay of execution this week as Oak Bluffs residents and officials railed at the prospect of losing a part of Island history.
The West Tisbury library has always been the overachieving runt of the Island library system, keeping its voracious readership sated despite humble resources. Designs for a vastly expanded library unveiled on Monday call for a facility that may finally accommodate that book-hungry community by the spring of 2014.
By PETER BRANNEN
Plans announced this week to build an offshore wind farm off Rhode Island have leapfrogged Cape Wind as the largest proposed facility in the country.
On Tuesday, Susan Savory, the recently installed children’s bookseller at the Bunch of Grapes Bookstore in Vineyard Haven, warmly surveyed her second floor domain. A mother and child quietly sat on the store’s beanbag chairs engrossed in the richly-illustrated, understated moral universe of the children’s book.
West Tisbury selectmen were surprised to learn this week that their town’s assessment for the up-Island school district may spike by some $300,000 next year due to changing enrollment patterns in the district which serves the three up-Island towns.
