Sam Bungey
A Chilmark police report on Middle Road traffic is in and the results are not flattering: of the 14,500 vehicles clocked in a 13-day period last June on the road which stretches from Beetlebung corner into West Tisbury, more than 87 per cent were speeding.
According to police chief Timothy Rich, who presented the data at a selectmen’s meeting last Thursday, the main offenders were local.
Occupying almost every available seat in the Chilmark Community Center, voters rejected a $2 million purchase of the Home Port restaurant at a special town meeting last night, flouting months of effort on the part of selectmen to acquire the Menemsha restaurant and surrounding property for public use.
As a result of last night’s vote, the longstanding Menemsha seafood restaurant will now likely go to Robert and Sarah Nixon, private buyers who signed an alternate purchase agreement with the current owners.
Aquinnah gave up on an energy district of critical planning concern which gave the town the ability to pass its own municipal energy regulations when the Martha’s Vineyard Commission voted to rescind the special status last Thursday.
A moratorium on building which accompanied the energy district is now lifted.
Meanwhile, selectman Camille Rose told the commission last week that work on the pioneering energy bylaw can continue under the auspices of the townwide district
The future of the Home Port is in the hands of Chilmark voters who will decide whether to approve town purchase of the 70-year-old restaurant and surrounding property at a special town meeting Monday.
Voters face at least two choices: according to the first article on the warrant if the town buys the Home Port for $2 million, the restaurant will be taken down to make way for a park area, a site for additional public parking and rest room facilities and public access to the waterfront.
Daniel Larkosh, a trial lawyer and West Tisbury resident, clinched the Democratic nomination for Cape and Islands state representative Tuesday, becoming the first Vineyarder to secure the position since the district was created in 1988.
Should he win in November, it will be the first time the Vineyard has had its own representative in the state house in over 30 years.
It was a highly contested primary featuring three Vineyard candidates, a Falmouth resident and a Nantucket write-in candidate who ran a highly successful campaign in his home county.
Voter confusion at the Nantucket ballot box changed the result of Tuesday’s Democratic primary for Cape and Islands state representative, according to the town clerk who managed vote counting where write-in candidate Tim Madden secured 52 per cent of the vote.
Mr. Madden ultimately lost to Vineyard candidate Daniel Larkosh, the West Tisbury attorney who won the nomination for the district that spans the Vineyard, Nantucket and Falmouth.