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Featured Articles  Wampanoag Community Center sits unfinished, unusedIn the summer of 2004, two teams of Air Force reservists traveled from their home base, Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to Aquinnah to begin erecting the steel frame for a new community center building for the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head. The Wampanoag ... Moshup Trail: No EasementsThe Massachusetts Land Court has upheld the town of Aquinnah in a pivotal case that will ultimately decide whether a large swath of rare, salt-blasted coastal heathland along Moshup Trail remains forever wild or is opened up for development. Click here to read the decision as a ...The Aquinnah selectmen signed an agreement with the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) this week to coordinate emergency services for the town for the coming year. The joint town-tribe agreement was first established in 1995 to help coordinate police, fire, emergency medical, and natural disaster services. The agreement has gotten . . . → Read More: Town and Tribe Find Accord On Emergency Services Delivery The Federal Aviation Administration this week gave its imprimatur to the Cape Wind development on Nantucket Sound, but with expensive strings attached. In its decision, the FAA determined the 130-turbine wind farm would have “no substantial effect” on air traffic, but also insisted the project developers pay for the upgrading of . . . → Read More: FAA Says Yes To Cape Wind Three weeks ago, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar approved Cape Wind’s plan to place 130 wind turbines on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound. The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) and the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe opposed the Cape Wind project on cultural grounds. Opponents of the wind farm, including both tribes, have . . . → Read More: Cape Wind deal means dollars for tribes, higher costs for consumers 
Longtime Aquinnah moderator Walter Delaney remembers, years ago, spotting an unexpected visitor sneak into a town meeting. It was a warm summer night, and he had just gaveled the meeting to a close when a skunk strolled through the front doors and settled in beneath a chair in the back of . . . → Read More: Longtime Moderator Recalls Skunks, Bumps in Aquinnah The selectmen predicted it would be a noncontroversial annual town meeting this year in Aquinnah, and they were almost right. Serious faces at Aquinnah annual town meeting. After long debate on Tuesday night, voters could not agree on terms for selling a town-owned piece of land, and the end . . . → Read More: Aquinnah Voters Abandon Land Sale The Aquinnah selectmen expect a swift and easy special and annual town meeting on Tuesday, citing a noncontroversial warrant despite a long list of articles, and plenty of free cash to cover all the spending. “I don’t see a single thing that’s controversial,” said selectman Camille Rose at Tuesday night’s selectmen . . . → Read More: Aquinnah Town Meeting Sees Walter Delaney Give up Gavel Aquinnah voters will be asked to do double duty Tuesday night. A special town meeting is scheduled to begin at 6:45 pm followed by the annual town meeting at 7 pm. Historically, assembling a quorum of Aquinnah voters and getting them all to sit down in a very timely manner is . . . → Read More: Aquinnah meets for annual with $2.9 million budget in place The Annual Town Meeting and Special Town Meeting warrants have been released. You may view them by clicking here to visit our community calendar. Click on the arrow for each meeting date in order to view the warrant for that meeting. By MIKE SECCOMBE Developer Jim Gordon had something to smile about Wednesday. The federal government has given its blessing to the development of Cape Wind, America’s first big offshore wind farm, on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound. The Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, announced his decision to approve . . . → Read More: Interior Secretary Approves Cape Wind The federal Department of the Interior has approved the Cape Wind renewable energy project destined for Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar traveled to Boston to announcement his decision. Gov. Deval Patrick, who joined Mr. Salazar at the State House ceremony, said he expects construction on . . . → Read More: Secretary Salazar approves Cape Wind project in sound 
Recent wind energy articles from various news sources are linked below. If you have run across other interesting articles concerning wind power and the Vineyard, please click here to send us an email with the link. Regulators Approve First Offshore Wind Farm in U.S., . . . → Read More: Wind Energy and the Vineyard in the News Opponents of the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm scored a key victory yesterday when a federal panel on historic preservation recommended that U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar kill the project. The recommendation from the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) is the final piece required in the review of Cape Wind’s . . . → Read More: Blow dealt to Cape Wind project Summer beach-time is still a few months away, so I thought you might enjoy this video I found on YouTube. Do you have Aquinnah photos or videos you’d like to share with the AGHCA community? Use the form below to let . . . → Read More: Aquinnah Video: A Little Summertime in the Chilly Spring Okay, so maybe what the residents of Cuttyhunk were doing in order to get their high-speed Internet service was not strictly legal, but goodness, it was clever. It showed, they will tell you, the sort of inventiveness that made America great. But Comcast doesn’t see it that way. To the giant . . . → Read More: Cuttyhunk Combats Comcast on Wireless The failure of the Aquinnah and Mashpee Wampanoag Tribes to reach an agreement with the developers of a wind farm in Nantucket Sound to mitigate the project’s effect on historic properties has set the stage for what is expected to be the final public hearing on the project. Ken Salazar, Secretary . . . → Read More: Cape Wind’s effects on Nantucket Sound’s historic properties get public airing |
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