A bare-bones budget, bylaw changes to allow more affordable housing in town and a proclamation to “condemn” the Cape Wind project await Aquinnah voters at the annual town meeting on Tuesday night.
The meeting begins at 6:45 p.m. at the old Aquinnah town hall with a special town meeting preceding the annual session.
Town moderator Michael Hebert will preside over the sessions.
There are 10 articles on the special town meeting warrant, including a request for $17,500 to buy a
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Aquinnah selectmen agreed to take the first steps toward becoming a green community this week, putting the town in line to receive state grant money as well as becoming more environmentally sound.
“We’d be eligible for a good amount of money,” selectman and board chairman Camille Rose said at the selectmen’s meeting Tuesday. Among other things, the town is exploring a project to install solar panels at the landfill.
Tisbury voters approved a series of articles at their April annual
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Aquinnah voters and taxpayers have benefited from changes in town government in the last few years, including a change in professional management in town hall. But the key has been the ability of the three sitting selectmen to act with a clarifying determination that their decisions will be made, and will be seen as, in the interests of all Aquinnah residents — Indian and non-Indian, voter and non-voter, year-rounder and seasonal resident.
It’s a complicated constituency, and a successful selectman
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Aquinnah voters will meet at 7 pm, Tuesday, in the town hall meeting room, to take action on specialand annual town meeting warrants totaling 40 articles, and a $3,048,524 spending plan for the next fiscal year, which begins on July 1.
On Wednesday, voters go to the polls to elect town officers. Polls are open from noon to 7 pm in town hall.
The only contest is a battle for one seat on the three-member board of selectmen. Beverly Wright,
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Aquinnah voters will decide one contest at the polls Wednesday, May 11, a race for a seat on the three-member board of selectmen that finds incumbent Camille Rose, a veteran town official, defending her job against Beverly Wright, a former chairman of the Wampanoag Tribe.
Beverly Wright
The polls will be open Wednesday, from noon until 7 pm in Aquinnah town hall on State Road.
Ms. Rose seeks a third term. She has lived and
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Chuck Stevens of Mystic, Connecticut is a member of the Coast Guard auxiliary air wing. He is one of thousands of men and women civilian volunteers who assist the Coast Guard on land, on the water, and in the air.
Pilot Phil Cox and observer Chuck Stevens were on aerial patrol on July 12, 2010 when they spotted a plume of smoke that led them to the Menemsha Boathouse fire.
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Tourism at the Gay Head Cliffs may get a boost this summer. The executive director of the Martha’s Vineyard Museum told the Aquinnah selectmen this week that the Gay Head Lighthouse will be open weekdays beginning June 21.
David Nathans said the new hours at the lighthouse will provide more sightseeing opportunities for tour bus companies by being open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
“We’re excited that we’re going to be able to open the lighthouse
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Frances Tenenbaum of Cambridge and Aquinnah will be honored on April 12 by the New York Horticultural Society for her many years of promoting an interest in horticulture. A longtime editor at Houghton Mifflin in Boston, her specialty has been books on every aspect of popular horticulture and landscaping and she has gained a reputation as one of the nation’s leading garden editors. When the Garden Writers Association of America recently listed the 25 most important garden books of the
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You’ll find in the news columns today an update on the effort to build a distributed antenna system (DAS) to improve cell service in two of the up-Island towns. The effort began as a plan to end spotty coverage in all three towns, but West Tisbury dropped out, pleased with the quality of service in its town, or at least displeased with the promise of the three-town partnership.
From before the beginning of the partnership, the challenges were considerable,
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A medical emergency in Menemsha last month highlighted the urgency of a two-town project to bring reliable wireless service to Chilmark and Aquinnah. A man collapsed and the first reaction by those near him was to reach for their cell phones to call for an ambulance — a futile effort in a section known for a lack of wireless signal.
File photo by
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A project to improve cell phone coverage in the up-Island towns is moving forward after a meeting between service providers and NStar this week took place to measure poles for the distributive antenna system (DAS).
If all goes as planned, up-Island residents could see improved cell coverage by July 1. Chilmark executive secretary Timothy Carroll met with Verizon, Comcast and NStar Wednesday morning to evaluate what needed to be changed on the existing poles in order to incorporate the system.
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It has been seven long months since the investigation into the Menemsha fire began by top federal and state experts, including the state fire marshal, the United States Coast Guard and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. And now the investigation has ended, not with a bang but something far more open-ended: The cause of the fire that destroyed the Coast Guard boathouse and forced the evacuation of the village of Menemsha last July cannot be precisely determined.
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The Aquinnah selectmen voted this week to accept a private donation to help underwrite the town’s participation in the Massachusetts Estuaries Project study of Menemsha and Squibnocket Ponds. Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg will contribute up to $15,000 to help pay for the town’s share of the project.
The donation stems from an agreement made when Mrs. Schlossberg subdivided the 375-acre property she inherited from her mother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, into 31 lots in 2006. The subdivision was for estate planning
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This week, the chairman of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), in a press statement to The Times, said that allegations by a former employee of environmental violations on tribal lands are without merit.
In a separate statement, the chairman of the Tribal Housing Authority, said the claims of wrondoing came from a “disgruntled temporary contractor.”
The allegations were reported in a news brief published February 10. The Times reported that Corey Randolph, a licensed wastewater plant
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On first blush it’s easy to be blasé about the new on-line digital assessors’ map in Aquinnah that can be viewed by anyone, anywhere, anytime from the comfort of their home.
At a time when you can do just about everything online — buy groceries, book a plane ticket, download music and even publish your first novel — the idea of an electronic assessors’ map might seem, at least at first, rather pedestrian.
But not so fast, because this new
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