Revised Yellow House Plan Attracts Lone Bid
A sole applicant is in the running in Edgartown’s second search for someone to lease and renovate the Yellow House.
Sara Brown
The former longtime chief probation officer for Suffolk superior court was sentenced to three to five years in prison on Friday on drug charges that occurred on the Vineyard.
Milton Britton Sr., 66, pleaded guilty in Dukes County superior court to possessing class B drugs (cocaine) with intent to distribute.
By SARA BROWN
The former longtime chief probation officer for Suffolk superior court was sentenced to three to five years in prison on Friday on drug charges that occurred on the Vineyard.
Milton Britton Sr., 66, pleaded guilty in Dukes County superior court to possessing class B drugs (cocaine) with intent to distribute.
The Ides of March are coming a month late to the Vineyard.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, and Vineyarders are invited to Shakespeare for the Masses’ staging of Julius Caesar at the Pit Stop this weekend.
Edgartown voters easily approved $4.9 million in funding for a new town library during a lengthy annual town meeting Tuesday night.
With a gathering of 305 voters at the Old Whaling Church, town meeting members approved most of the items on the 63-article annual town meeting warrant and a 12-article special town meeting warrant.
A town operating budget of $28.3 million was approved, as was a $272,000 Massachusetts Estuaries Project study for Poucha Pond, Cape Pogue Pond, Katama Bay and Oyster Pond.
The former longtime chief probation officer for Suffolk superior court was sentenced to three to five years in prison on Friday on drug charges that occurred on the Vineyard.
Milton Britton Sr., 66, pleaded guilty in Dukes county superior court to possessing class B drugs (cocaine) with intent to distribute.
The fate of the Martha’s Vineyard Family Center surfaced again this week, with the center’s supporters urging the high school committee to consider ways to keep the center at the high school.
The high school, citing low enrollment numbers, has decided to phase out its early childhood vocational program. As a result, the family center will need to relocate by 2014.
While there are few contested races on the ballot for Edgartown’s annual election next Thursday, voters will be asked to weigh in on the contested roundabout and some expensive town projects.
The first of three ballot questions asks for a Proposition 2 1/2 exemption for $4.9 million for the town’s share of a new library at the site of the old Edgartown School. A second override question asks voters to assess an additional $272,000 in taxes to pay for the town’s portion of a Massachusetts Estuaries study for four towns.