Flores seeks to unseat Cyr in Senate
John Flores, a Republican town councilor in Barnstable, seeks to unseat incumbent Sen. Julian Cyr, D-Truro, for the Cape and Islands District state Senate position in the upcoming Nov. 6 general election.
Cyr, 32,...
Davis and Piland vie for superior court clerkship
Either Anthony Piland, a physician assistant from Tisbury, or George Davis, an attorney from Oak Bluffs, will replace Joe Sollitto after his 42 years of service and oversee the Dukes County Superior Court. Sollitto...
Meetings roundup September 21 – Oct 17
All-Island School Committee (AISC) Meeting
MVRHS library conference room
Thursday, Sept. 21, at 6 pm
Edgartown Board of Selectmen
Edgartown Town Hall
Monday, Sept. 25, at 4 pm
Oak Bluffs Board of Selectmen
Oak Bluffs library meeting room
Tuesday, Sept. 26, at...
Tisbury town meeting picks up speed
Voters got off to a fast start in Tisbury at night two of town meeting. With a little more than 100 voters at the school gymnasium, Tisbury became the fifth Island town to endorse...
Tisbury selectman Melinda Loberg faces challenge
Incumbent Melinda Loberg faces a challenge from Jim Rogers for one seat on the Tisbury board of selectmen in the May 9 town election.
This week The Times asked each candidate to describe his or...
Tisbury debates funds for Kuehn’s Way housing, and approves it
Kuehn’s Way affordable housing project was in the spotlight at the first night of Tisbury town meeting Monday. Voters approved $1.1 million in Community Preservation Act projects, including $570,000 for Kuehn’s Way, a 20-unit,...
Chilmark chooses character over restaurant beer and wine
Chilmark will remain a bring-your-own-bottle town, as voters overwhelmingly rejected a petitioned article that would have allowed town leaders to issue up to five licenses for beer and wine.
At the height of Monday’s town...
Chilmark to ask voters to approve 5.67 percent budget increase
Chilmark voters will head to the Chilmark Community Center at 7 pm on Monday, April 24, to consider 34 warrant articles, including a $9.57 million operating budget.
The town’s spending plan is up 5.67 percent...
Oak Bluffs voters endorse plastic bag ban
On Wednesday night it took Oak Bluffs voters took two hours to decide on 13 remaining warrant articles on the annual town meeting warrant that they didn’t claw through on Tuesday night.
A good number...
Small town, big budget in Tisbury
Tisbury’s is a big budget for a small town. The net increase in the fiscal 2018 (FY2018) budget for Tisbury is 6.3 percent, according to Jon Snyder, Tisbury finance director. The overall increase is...
West Tisbury voters fund affordable housing
Updated: At 11 pm Tuesday, West Tisbury town moderator Dan Waters hunkered down at the edge of the stage at the West Tisbury School after wrapping up a classic New England town meeting that...
Oak Bluffs voters leave Island Theater in limbo
The mellow tones of Dexter Gordon were playing as the good people of Oak Bluffs filed into the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School Performing Arts Center for annual town meeting Tuesday night, and the...
Taking housing to the bank
Mopeds are getting the buzz, immigration policy is generating emotion, but there’s another Island-wide initiative on town meeting agendas that’s an age-old problem in search of a solution. A 13-member committee is seeking support...
Workforce housing hits a wall in Oak Bluffs
A two-thirds vote at Oak Bluffs town meeting appeared to be the final hurdle in the ambitious plans of the owners of Phillips Hardware and the Lampost to create much-needed “top of the shop”...
The moderators: The men and woman who run our town meetings
During the month of April, five Island towns will hold their annual town meetings; Aquinnah will hold its in May. To paraphrase former MVTimes editor Nelson Sigelman, town meetings are like orchestras, and each...
West Tisbury budget up 4 percent for 2018
The net increase in the fiscal 2018 (FY2018) budget for West Tisbury is 4 percent, according to Bruce Stone, West Tisbury town accountant. The grand total for 2018 is $18,249,756, up from $17,540,676 this...
Island chiefs support immigration warrant article
Like a sun-splashed spring day, the air is a lot clearer between police and a group proposing an Island-wide ballot question on how local law enforcement handles immigration issues.
In an hour-long meeting held Tuesday,...
West Tisbury candidates weigh in
Incumbent Richard Knabel faces a challenge from Kent Healy for one seat on the West Tisbury board of selectmen in the April 13 town election. Here are responses from both men to questions from...
Tisbury aims to better regulate rental properties
John Schilling, Tisbury fire chief, recalls responding to an incident where he found 10 people living in an unfinished basement, with rooms partitioned off by two-by-fours and blue tarps, and a gas stove connected...
Take two on town hall in Oak Bluffs
For the second time in four years, Oak Bluffs voters on Tuesday, April 11, will be asked to approve a Proposition 2½ debt exclusion to finance a new town hall. The new town hall...