West Tisbury opened its town meeting with a tribute to Patrick Gregory. Getting down to business, voters approved a $16.9 million budget, with all but one of the 42 articles passing. Short of a quorum on the second night, the meeting was reconvened for next week.
With a town hall renovation project in tatters, unpaid bills stacked high and a legal expense account on empty, the question left hanging in West Tisbury yesterday was: What next?
Despite warnings from selectman John Early and assessor Michael Colaneri at the special town meeting on Wednesday night that a no vote on the legal bills would lead to litigation and cause the assessors' attorney to resign, yesterday there were no immediate signs that either were imminent.