Remy Tumin
It’s hard to imagine warm summer nights on these cold spring days, but they’re coming.
And in less than a month, the new collegiate baseball team, the Martha’s Vineyard Sharks, will take to the field at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.
To warm up the Vineyard crowd, the Sharks will have a fundraiser dinner for the field and Vineyard baseball on Saturday at Sharky’s Cantina in Edgartown with former Red Sox player Bill Buckner. The dinner starts at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $45.
Aquinnah voters opted for a changing of the guard at the annual town election this year, electing former Wampanoag tribal council chairman Beverly Wright as their new selectman.
Ms. Wright defeated two-term selectman Camille Rose 124-95 in the Wednesday election.
A total of 225 voters turned out at the polls, 56 per cent of the 398 registered voters in town. Town clerk Carolyn Feltz presided over the election which still involves hand-counting ballots. Aquinnah uses an antique voting box from 1880; each paper ballot is cranked through the machine.
Aquinnah voters agreed to condemn the federal government’s handling of the Cape Wind project, explore the use of solar panels at the landfill and trim the Tri-Town Ambulance budget at the annual town meeting Tuesday night. And an article to banish the practice of tabling controversial issues? That was tabled.
Nearly all of the 30 articles on the warrant passed during the three-and-a-half-hour meeting that saw much debate over the ambulance budget, an amendment to the town affordable housing bylaw and an article to reduce the size of the quorum.
Aquinnah voters passed a $3 million budget and nearly all 30 articles at the annual town meeting Tuesday night, moving through a 10-article special town meeting session first.
Voters backed the selectmen’s recommendation to fund just $134,000 of the $160,000 requested by the Tri-Town ambulance service, questioning the number of full-time paramedics needed to staff the service and the purpose of a deputy chief. The reduced dollar amount would not include the deputy chief’s salary.
The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School district committee approved changes to the student handbook at their monthly meeting this week that include revised policies on discipline, tardiness and academic honesty.
The new disciplinary section of the handbook reflects how the school wants students to behave rather than what they should not do, assistant principal Andrew Berry told the committee. Renamed code of conduct, the section addresses general conduct and dress expectations.
A bare-bones budget, bylaw changes to allow more affordable housing in town and a proclamation to “condemn” the Cape Wind project await Aquinnah voters at the annual town meeting on Tuesday night.
The meeting begins at 6:45 p.m. at the old Aquinnah town hall with a special town meeting preceding the annual session.
Town moderator Michael Hebert will preside over the sessions.