MARGARET KNIGHT
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A few changes are happening around Chappaquiddick’s ferry landing—man-made ones, as opposed to the ones made by Mother Nature as she constantly sharpens the Point, carrying the sand out to sea, or uses it to fill in the ferry slip. She’s always playing with us humans, putting too much sand in one place and too little somewhere else.
The CIA’s transportation committee has been meeting this winter and working with highway superintendent Stuart Fuller to make the Point a little more user-friendly. Roger Becker, chair of the committee, and residents Fran Clay, Bob Clay, Chrissie Haslet, Peter Wells, and Gerry Ordway have been meeting, although others are also on the committee. Once decisions were made this past Monday, and the selectmen consulted that afternoon, Stuart had a lot of the work already done by Tuesday afternoon.
The handicap spaces have been moved just across the parking area to the water side. Where they used to be, one space and the cement bumper have been removed to make turning the corner easier. The head of the ferry line has also been moved back two car lengths so there is more room there, too. “Lake Stuart” (as Roger refers to it), at the far end of the pull-off ferry line area, will have drainage installed after Dig Safe looks at it to see what’s underground. The continuation of the ferry line along the side of the paved road had more material added to it to make it less sandy, and more likely that people would pull their vehicles all the way off the road to wait. Dirt was also added to the unpaved parking lot to fill potholes. The selectmen will write a letter of support to the land bank regarding a possible future board walk from the corner of the dirt lot out to the beach.
Chappy’s annual Spring Egg Hunt and Tea will take place on Saturday, April 7, at 4 p.m. at the Chappaquiddick Community Center, rain or shine. Thanks to Liz Villard there will be lots of eggs to be found, so come by 4 in order to be in on the hunt. Afterwards there will be a potluck high tea—bring sandwiches or cookies to share. On Liz’s poster at the ferry, black Labs sport bunny ears, pointing to the unlikely tradition of Easter bunnies giving out eggs, a tradition she says arose from spring fertility rites.
Tuesday, April 10 at 7 p.m. is the Annual town meeting. Edgartown usually whips through the warrant articles, thanks to Jeff Norton, after a few questions from Peter Look. Then the ferry awaits us whenever the meeting is over, thanks to Peter Wells. There is an important library article that will allow the town to accept the state grant money and to agree to build the new library at the site of the former elementary school. The article needs a two-thirds vote to pass. An important ballot question in Thursday’s voting concerns the proposition two and one-half override to spend the money.
The Edgartown Library’s April/May film series is entitled Stranger in a Strange Land. They trust we’ll see the common thread as the series unfolds. On Tuesday, April 17 at 7 p.m. they’ll show Lost in Translation with Bill Murray. Desserts are served. No film the night of annual town meeting, April 10.
The library also will show season one of the popular British television series, Downton Abbey, in its entirety, on three successive Sunday afternoons, April 15, 22, and 29, at 1 p.m. on their big screen with its new sound system. Tea and light refreshments will be served.
April has been a relatively normal month weatherwise, after our balmy winter, with some frost at night, and cold, blustery days. The direction our weather patterns are moving point to zero degrees by summer. The daffodils say otherwise.
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