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This week, the Coast Guard announced a change of course for the Gay Head Lighthouse. The sweep of the light's familiar rotating high-intensity incandescent beacon will remain, at least for the near future.
In April, the Coast Guard said it planned to replace the light's aging DCB-224 optic, a rotating mechanism that relies on a bank of 1,000-watt incandescent ...
Remy Tumin
Monday, June 17, 2013 - 2:08pm
The U.S. Coast Guard has abandoned plans to modernize the optic at the Gay Head Light and will instead maintain the current sweeping beam.
Lieut. Matthew Stuck of the Coast Guard aids to navigation branch said Monday the Coast Guard has found a replacement optic for the current aging lens at the Gay Head Light. ...
The future of gambling in Massachusetts, and particularly in the Southeastern part of the state, lacks even modest clarity. Competing possible locations for three full-fledged casinos, competing applicants for gambling licenses, and competition among Indian tribes for one license that, under Massachusetts law, may be reserved for an Indian enterprise, plus accumulating litigation and aspiring litigants, all complicate the decision ...
The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) is rejecting a federal judge’s decision to keep the tribe from intervening in a lawsuit brought by a prospective casino developer.
“We are understandably disappointed with the decision,” Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, chairwoman of the Aquinnah tribal council, said in an email to the Times on Friday. She said the tribe is considering its legal options.
On ...
A federal court judge has rejected the requests by two federally-recognized tribes to intervene in a lawsuit brought by KG Urban Enterprises, a developer that wants to build a New Bedford commercial casino.
Judge Nathaniel Gorton, in a 22-page decision filed today, rejected both motions to intervene saying that the state can adequately protect the interests of the Wampanoag Tribe of ...
In a ruling dated June 6 and made public Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel Gorton denied a request by the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) to intervene as a defendant in a suit brought by KG Urban, a private casino developer that would build a casino in New Bedford.
Judge Gorton denied a similar request by the Mashpee ...
The General Services Agency plans to list the Gay Head Light as excess property this summer and begin the transfer of ownership process, an agency spokesperson said Monday.
The notice of availability is expected to be posted by the General Services Agency on August 1, New England public affairs officer Patrick Sclafani said. The notice will allow the town of Aquinnah, ...
Its sweeping beam has guided mariners to safety and cast long flickers of shadow and light across the westernmost edge of the Vineyard for many decades.
But now the Gay Head Light is slated for a lantern change, and in the process the beam will change from sweeping to pulsing.
Lieut. Matthew Stuck of the U.S. Coast Guard aids to navigation branch ...
FALL RIVER – Mashpee Wampanoag Chairman Cedric Cromwell told the Massachusetts Gaming Commission that the tribe’s $500 million casino project is ahead of others in the state, making it “unnecessary” to open the Southeastern Massachusetts region to commercial casino bids.
That was in sharp contrast to more than a dozen speakers at the commission’s meeting Thursday who urged commissioners to pull ...
In 2006, this space recalled the December 2004 decision of the state Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) that ruled that the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) is subject to local enforcement of zoning regulations with respect to the construction of a small shed on the so-called Cook Lands.
Congress's Indian Land Claims Settlement Act of 1987, flowing from the 1983 settlement ...
Aquinnah town leaders have reacted with dismay to a Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) decision to back out of a land use agreement, signed on March 7, 2007, that was designed to help both sides avoid expensive lawsuits over zoning and land use issues.
The memorandum of understanding (MOU), known as the "Intergovernmental agreement on cooperative land use and planning between ...
The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) hosted an informational meeting Tuesday, February 12, to discuss a long-term maintenance plan for the Menemsha Pond system that also includes Nashaquitsa and Stonewall Ponds.
In 2011 the tribe received a $181,600 grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as part of Tribal Wildlife Grants program that awarded $7 million to 37 Native ...
This week, the Coast Guard announced a change of course for the Gay Head Lighthouse. The sweep of the light’s familiar rotating high-intensity incandescent beacon will remain, at least for the near future.
In April, the Coast Guard said it planned to replace the light’s aging DCB-224 optic, a rotating mechanism that relies on a bank of 1,000-watt incandescent bulbs set behind red and white filters, with modern stationary 80 watt LED bulbs.
The U.S. Coast Guard has abandoned plans to modernize the optic at the Gay Head Light and will instead maintain the current sweeping beam.
Lieut. Matthew Stuck of the Coast Guard aids to navigation branch said Monday the Coast Guard has found a replacement optic for the current aging lens at the Gay Head Light. The light will likely be replaced in the next few months.
Town is seeking to take ownership of historic light and relocate it due to erosion. Timothy Johnson
The General Services Agency plans to list the Gay Head Light as excess property this summer and begin the transfer of ownership process, an agency spokesperson said Monday.
The notice of availability is expected to be posted by the General Services Agency on August 1, New England public affairs officer Patrick Sclafani said. The notice will allow the town of Aquinnah, another
Gay Head Light must be moved because of erosion. Photo: Timothy Johnson
Members of a town committee charged with organizing the move of the Gay Head Light learned this week that they are not alone in their plight during a presentation about a project to move the Sankaty Head Light on Nantucket six years ago.
At the Gay Head Light committee meeting Wednesday, Sconset Trust president Bob Felch and his wife, Marianne, described the project that involved three years
THE MASHPEE Wampanoag tribe made a strong moral case that it deserved a head start in the casino race in Southeastern Massachusetts. But the tribe has been unable to capitalize on the leg up it was granted in the 2011 legislation. Now, it is lashing out at the state Gaming Commission for opening the process to other bidders. This misstep could backfire against the tribe, and it ought to tone down its rhetoric now. Continue reading…..
A decision by the state gaming commission late this week to open up Southeastern Massachusetts to commercial bidding for casinos will not disrupt casino plans by the Vineyard Wampanoags, the head of the Vineyard tribe said.
“We have been following these events as well . . . . It doesn’t impact us at all,” Cheryl Andrews-Maltais said in an email to the Gazette. Mrs. Andrews Maltais is chairman of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah).
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