Sam Bungey
The Edgartown animal shelter scheduled to close May 1 will be available for a future Vineyard animal home, the head of the Massachusetts Society fo
Recent Edgartown selectmen’s meetings have acquired a running theme — junk.
When residents of Holly Bear Lane came before selectmen shortly before Christmas they complained of a salvage yard in operation at the entrance to the road on property owned by Chris Chambers. This Monday they were back, armed with a list of 10 specific grievances, with accompanying photography and testimonials.
While its leaders scrape the town coffers for pennies, America’s wealthiest small town just got richer, according to a report from Chilmark’s assistant assessor.
The town’s total value, based on assessments, stands at $3.1 billion in 2009, up $186 million on last year says the report.
Chilmark was deemed the richest town in the country with a population of under 10,000 in an article that ran in Business Week magazine in December.
Selectmen made an exception for Dardanella and Sean Slavin, Chilmark’s first recipients of an affordable home site under the town’s new affordable housing bylaw, ruling Tuesday to allow the property to pass to an heir without income restrictions.
But in the ruling selectmen wrestled with — and left unanswered — a key philosophical question on affordable housing, namely whether property should stay in the family regardless of income.
By SAM BUNGEY
An Aquinnah special town meeting postponed three times since last October and now scheduled for Tuesday, has picked up steam with a new proposal to stage a seasonal performing arts program at the Aquinnah Cliffs, and a growing host of housekeeping issues becoming more pressing as the fiscal year end approaches.
The meeting begins at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the old town hall; 39 voters are needed to make a quorum.
The owners of the Home Port, who completed their purchase this month of the long-running Menemsha seafood restaurant, plan to make few changes in their first season.
Susan and Robert Nixon bought the restaurant from William and Madeline Holtham on Feb. 10, paying $2.3 million.
The Nixons, who also own the Menemsha and Beach Plum Inns, plan to retain elements from the old restaurant, from menu to staff and hope that customer loyalty for the business, which has been going since 1931, will prevail.