The plan which ends nearly 300 years of separate Island representation is now law.
Friday, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis signed the redistricting plan approved by the General Court last month. He did so, he said, “reluctantly.”
That remark was for the benefit of Danvers, whose redistricting has received the most criticism. “On the whole it is a reasonable and well put together plan, but I believe Danvers district is very unfortunate,” the governor said.
Opponents of the plan have more than a month to file an appeal of the plan, but there is no movement on either the Vineyard or Nantucket toward that end.