Ms. Wright defeated two-term selectman Camille Rose 124-95 in the Wednesday election.
A total of 225 voters turned out at the polls, 56 per cent
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Aquinnah voters opted for a changing of the guard at the annual town election this year, electing former Wampanoag tribal council chairman Beverly Wright as their new selectman.
Aquinnah voters agreed to condemn the federal government’s handling of the Cape Wind project, explore the use of solar panels at the landfill and trim the Tri-Town Ambulance budget at the annual town meeting Tuesday night. And an article to banish the practice of tabling controversial issues? That was tabled.
Nearly all of Continue reading Aquinnah Voters Trim Tri-Town EMS Budget Amid Tabling Talk… Aquinnah voters chose former Wampanoag Tribe chairman Beverly Wright to take a seat on the three-member board of selectmen. Voting yesterday, May 11, the decision went the challenger’s way, 124-95, to unseat incumbent selectman Camille Rose.
A total of 225 voters cast votes. Of the town’s 398 registered voters, a significant number cast Continue reading Beverly Wright outpolls Camille Rose to win election in Aquinnah… Aquinnah voters on Tuesday plowed through special and annual town meeting warrants and approved a $3,048,524 operating budget for fiscal 2012. They also took a scalpel to the town’s Tri-town Ambulance Service assessment and reduced the town’s share by approximately $26,000.
On Wednesday, voters went to the polls to elect town officers. The Continue reading Aquinnah trims Tri-Town ambulance contribution… Aquinnah voters passed a $3 million budget and nearly all 30 articles at the annual town meeting Tuesday night, moving through a 10-article special town meeting session first.
Voters backed the selectmen’s recommendation to fund just $134,000 of the $160,000 requested by the Tri-Town ambulance service, questioning the number of full-time paramedics needed Continue reading Aquinnah Debates Ambulance Budget… Aquinnah voters will choose between two veteran leaders next week for selectman, both women, one with an extensive record of public service in town, especially in planning, and the other with a long history of service with the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah).
Incumbent selectman and board chairman Camille Rose is seeking Continue reading Beverly Wright, Camille Rose vie for seat… 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. Continue reading Aquinnah voters to tackle housing bylaw… 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. Continue reading Aquinnah Is All About the Environment… 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
Continue reading Editorial-MV Times : Camille Rose for Aquinnah selectman… 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 Continue reading Aquinnah voters take up $3 million budget, annual warrant… 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 Continue reading Former tribe chairman challenges incumbent in Aquinnah selectmen’s race… 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 Continue reading New Menemsha dock takes shape, as summer nears… 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 Continue reading Gay Head Lighthouse Opens Weekdays… 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
Continue reading New York Society Honors Aquinnah Editor… 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
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