Remy Tumin
Vineyard fashion designer Chrysal Parrot recalled precisely the moment she saw her dress on stage at the Emmy Awards on Sunday night.
“I broke my toe, stumbling clumsily. My daughter yelled from the other room — she’s on, mom, come on she’s on,” said Ms. Parrot, who was still hobbling around her studio this week.
But the memory was fresh. There among dresses by Marchesa and Johanna Johnson was Ms. Parrot’s dress, being worn by Dahvi Waller, a writer and producer for Mad Men.
Aquinnah voters will be asked at special town meetings on Tuesday night to restore the town’s full share of the Tri-Town Ambulance Service budget, make additional payments to the town’s medicare and social security funds and finance an independent tax collector position.
There will be two special meetings back to back, beginning at 7 p.m. The first is to take up business postponed in July after the town failed to achieve a quorum.
A quorum of 39 voters is needed.
Vineyard towns lost out on vital community block grant funding for this year, but will be eligible to apply again next year, after the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development decided to forgo an every-other-year funding model last month.
The housing department eliminated the alternate year funding proposal from its 2012 action plan after a public hearing in August. Instead the department will limit the maximum amount of funding over a two-year period to $1.35 million per town.
Foreign language instruction at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School has been hit hard by staff changes, the high school district committee learned on Monday night.
There are more than a dozen personnel changes at the high school this year, more than any other school on the Island. At the start of the school year there were 17 personnel changes between staff resigning, retiring or being reassigned to another department.
Edgartown wastewater commissioners outlined a new billing system this week aimed at ironing out accounting issues that led to a fraud investigation by the Cape and Islands district attorney earlier this year.
Tim Connelly, wastewater commissioner chairman, told the selectmen at their weekly meeting on Monday the changes recommended by the town’s independent auditor have been adopted. Changes include new accounting software, separation of billing and collection and a new system to measure waste deposited at the plant by private haulers.
The Tri-Town Ambulance Service has a new chief, new medics and soon will have a new intermunicipal agreement among the three towns it serves.
Aquinnah, Chilmark and West Tisbury selectmen met on Wednesday to begin discussing changes to the 35-year-old ambulance service agreement and assessment formula.
West Tisbury selectman Richard Knabel, who led the effort to draft a new agreement over the summer, said there were two major issues — governance structure and dividing assessments and revenues among the towns.