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Aquinnah Cultural Center Open Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays 11 AM-4 PM Saturday, August 13, 2011 Annual Wampanoag Feast and Fundraiser 5 PM This event is held to raise funds for continued programming and exhibits at the AquinnahCultural Center. Please support your local tribal museum! The feast of traditional Wampanoag food is prepared by Aquinnah tribal member Kristina Continue reading Aquinnah Cultural Center Annual Fundraiser… From Megan Ottens-Sargent:
Sunday August 14 from 5 to 8pm Grand Re-Opening of the Gay Head Gallery with an Artists’ Reception and Benefit for the Vineyard Conservation Society and the Moshup Trail Project Starting August 12 – 26, an exhibit of paintings, photographs, and other works of art inspired by the globally rare Southeastern New Continue reading Gay Head Gallery re-opens with exhibition to benefit VCS and Moshup Trail Project… AQUINNAH/GAY HEAD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION (AGHCA) will host a “wine and cheese” gathering at the Vanderhoop Homestead on Aquinnah Circle at the Gay Head Cliffs on Monday, August 15 (rain date August 16), starting at 5 p.m. The evening will feature a talk by Mark London, the Executive Director of the Martha’s Vineyard Commission”
Continue reading AGHCA Summer Reception To Focus on Wind Power… From Aquinnah Town Hall:
The Board of Selectmen have scheduled a meeting for summer residents Wednesday, August 10 at 6:00 pm in the Old Town Hall. Department heads and Committee Chairmen/members are encouragedt to attend in order to answer any questions or address any concerns our seasonal residents may have about the Town Continue reading Summer Residents Meeting, Aug. 10… A state government plan to open waters close to the south shore of Martha’s Vineyard to industrial-scale wind power generation now appears unlikely to proceed, following the release of a draft wind energy plan by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.
Most of the two areas identified by the commonwealth for potential turbines, one Continue reading Wind turbine focus shifts farther offshore… The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) has filed a lawsuit to try to block the development of the Cape Wind project on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound.
In a statement issued Friday, the tribe announced the tribal government had authorized the long-threatened lawsuit against the Department of the Interior‘s Bureau of Ocean Continue reading Wampanoags Sue in U.S. Court Against Cape Wind Associates… From Adam Wilson, Aquinnah Town Administrator:
The MV Times incorrectly reported that the Town Special was Today @ 7:00 pm. It is not! Next Tuesday at the Old Town Hall. The meeting is to vote on 3 warrant articles, the most important of which is to fund the remaining 25K to Tri-Town ambulance Continue reading Special Town Meeting July 12… REMINDER - Our annual AGHCA GENERAL INFORMATIONAL MEETING will be held on this Saturday, July 9, from 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. at 22 Lighthouse Road. Updates and discussion about topical community issues will be provided. This is always a well-attended event and ample free parking is available, but those of you who can either walk to or
Continue reading AGHCA Annual Meeting, July 9… From an email from Adam Wilson, Aquinnah Town Administrator:
Attached is the warrant for a special meeting to be held in the Old Town Hall beginning at 7:00 pm. There are only a few articles; the most important asks voters to raise and appropriate 26K to complete the 1/3rd share of funding Continue reading Special Town Meeting July 12… The Aquinnah Cultural Center opens its doors for the season on Saturday, June 11 at 1 p.m. This year, its sixth, the museum is extending its hours and will now close at 4 p.m. The museum exhibits center around traditional and 19th century Wampanoag culture and history.
Admission is $5 for adults and Continue reading Aquinnah Cultural Center Gears Up For Summer… The Gay Head Lighthouse is one of the most recognizable structures on the Island. The red brick tower sits 170 feet above sea level atop the Gay Head cliffs. For 155 years it provided a guiding light to mariners in what was once one of the busiest shipping lanes on the eastern coast
Continue reading Preserving Martha’s Vineyard’s Gay Head Light… The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) last week announced the award of an $181,590 Tribal Wildlife Grant to the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) to develop a cooperative management plan for Menemsha Pond.
Seismologists at the Weston Observatory at Boston College detected two small earthquakes in an area between Martha’s Vineyard and New Bedford Sunday. A magnitude 2.1 quake struck at 8:39 pm followed by a smaller 1.3 shake at 8:46 pm.
The Observatory operates the New England Seismic Network (NESN), a network of broadband seismometers Continue reading Small earthquakes strike west of Martha’s Vineyard… Aquinnah voters went to the polls on May 11 and chose former Wampanoag Tribe chairman Beverly Wright to take a seat on the three-member board of selectmen. The vote was 124-95, to unseat incumbent selectman Camille Rose.
Ms. Wright joins a board that includes Jim Newman and Spencer Booker. Mr. Booker is also Continue reading Aquinnah election expected to shift Wampanoag-town relationship… If anyone opposed the principle of giving Geoffrey Craig (Spa) Tharpe $4,954.90 from the Aquinnah town coffers, they didn’t show up at town meeting on Tuesday night.
Instead, discussion focused on whether the town could find a creative but legal way to reimburse the popular Aquinnah resident for overpayment of his property Continue reading Town Tries to Free Mr. Tharpe From Tax Tangle of Its Making… |
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