The million dollar question in the recent vote for the new Chilmark School principal position is why not choose the exceptionally qualified, thoughtful, bright Island candidate with guaranteed housing and personal historical knowledge of the place and its culture?

In this challenging time of world-wide and Island-wide fractured spirit and upheaval, I’m stunned and so saddened that reconnecting and bolstering our local community wasn’t the obvious, broad-reaching choice.

What an extraordinary loss for the Chilmark community and its next generations.

Hillary Noyes-Keene

Chilmark