Wastewater concerns continue to hover over the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital’s proposed new nursing home facility off the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road, with selectmen voting Monday to commission an independent analysis.
A quiet and efficient presence at the weekly Edgartown selectmen’s meetings, Margaret Serpa has spent a long career scrutinizing municipal budgets on the Vineyard.
Born and raised in Edgartown, Mrs. Serpa was a member of the last class to graduate from the old Edgartown High School. She started to work at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School in 1972 and took over as administrative assistant in 1979, a position she kept until 2006.
Edgartown selectmen voted not to suspend the commercial scalloping license of fisherman Richard Morris Monday, going against the recommendation of the shellfish committee at a heated public hearing.
Edgartown Selectmen Lead Initiative to Join Ocean Wind Turbine
Proposal
By MIKE SECCOMBE
With Edgartown in the lead, the Vineyard is poised to join with
Nantucket and Cong. William Delahunt in pushing for the establishment of
an offshore energy zone to harness wind, wave and possibly tidal energy
from waters between the two Islands.
The move is a first step toward the goal of making the Islands
energy independent.
Some people crave the spotlight. Peter O. Bettencourt is not among
them.
"Oh, God," Mr. Bettencourt muttered Monday, when Arthur
Smadbeck, chairman of the Edgartown selectmen, let it be known that the
selectmen had a memento of appreciation for their town
administrator's nearly 40 years of full-time work for the town.
