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Oak Bluffs interim town administrator Robert Whritenour got a big vote of confidence from the town selectmen this week. Selectmen have been preparing to begin the search for a permanent town administrator, but on Tuesday selectman Mike Santoro wondered aloud why the board would even bother looking elsewhere given Mr. Whritenour’s early performance.
Superior Court Session
Civil and criminal trial sessions in Dukes County Superior Court begin next week in Edgartown and are expected to run through the end of October.
The Hon. Cornelius J. Moriarty 2nd will preside during the sessions, after hearing motions in criminal cases today in Edgartown.
Among today’s cases is the arraignment of David Thrift, 30, of Vineyard Haven, who was accused in July of assaulting his wife, fleeing his house and later returning and raping a 15-year-old female visitor at knifepoint.
Aquinnah voters agreed to restore full funding to the Tri-Town Ambulance Service budget at a special town meeting Tuesday night.
As a result, $25,900 that was cut at the annual town meeting in May will be returned to the budget for the ambulance that serves the three up-Island towns.
At the special meeting Tuesday, selectman and board chairman Jim Newman assured voters the number will decrease next year as negotiations for a new cost-sharing method are underway. The article passed unanimously.
The state Attorney General’s office has charged a Brookline doctor in a Medicaid fraud scheme, while his Vineyard Haven office that specializes in outpatient drug and alcohol treatment has closed.
An Air Force sergeant who was on the Vineyard in August as part of the protection team that travels with President Obama is facing assault charges in Edgartown district court in connection with a Saturday night bar fight.
Opponents to the roundabout are growing in volume — both audibly and by head count — if a public hearing at the Martha’s Vineyard Commission last week was any indication.