Wellfleet Grants $100,000 in CPA Funds for Lot; Chilmark Approves Antennae Atop Peaked Hill

On Monday evening, April 28, 2008, Wellfleet town meeting voted in favor of Article 20, approving $100,000 in Community Preservation Act funds to help the Wellfleet Conservation Trust purchase a one-acre lot on Pilgrim Spring Road. The Trust has a purchase agreement to buy the lot at bargain sale for $200,000.

Meanwhile, down on Martha's Vineyard, Chilmark voters granted permission to the United States Coast Guard to replace an existing 48-foot public safety antennae atop Peaked Hill with a 100-foot tower topped by a 13-foot antennae. Peaked Hill, a half-acre of land bought in 1975 by the Vineyard Open Land Foundation, is the highest point on the Island. The town owns a conservation restriction on the property. (Addendum: For details of the vote, read the newspaper article "Chilmark Allows Peaked Hill Tower," Vineyard Gazette, May 2, 2008.)