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Democrat Gathering
While the Republican candidates enjoy a season of nationally televised debates, the Tisbury Democratic committee will meet to discuss the 2012 elections, gathering on Saturday, Sept. 24, at 10 a.m. at Rocco’s Family Style Italian Restaurant. Rocco’s is in the Tisbury Marketplace on Beach Road in Vineyard Haven.
The Democrats are looking to build a team of volunteers. The committee cannot endorse a candidate until after the primary.
Areas all around the Vineyard have been annexed for wind development, and on Wednesday representatives from the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) wanted to hear the Vineyard public’s thoughts about one particular 400-square-mile plot between Block Island and Aquinnah.
The future of the historic Tea Lane farmhouse will be in the hands of Chilmark voters at a special town meeting Monday night as they decide whether or not to back a $550,000 project to restore the farmhouse and prepare the land for a tenant farmer.
The meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Chilmark Community Center. Longtime moderator Everett Poole will preside over the 11-article warrant.
This will be the second attempt to appropriate funds for the hilltop house which sits at the intersection of Tea Lane and Middle Road.
A 19-year-old Edgartown man has been ordered to pay thousands of dollars of restitution and write letters of apology to victims of a string of thefts in three Island towns last fall and winter.
Glenn Goulart had faced various charges in three dozen cases filed in Edgartown district court after his arrest and that of two other Island teens, both juveniles, last February.
A 34-year-old man was arraigned this week on charges he telephoned menacing threats from a psychiatric hospital to a Vineyard Haven selectman’s home.
Bernard M. Wojnowski of Vineyard Haven was accused of leaving threatening messages on the telephone machine of Geoghan Coogan, 35, on June 26.
Mr. Wojnowski is charged with making a threat to commit a crime, murder, and making a threat to commit a crime, assault and battery. Both charges carry up to a six-month jail term.
Aquinnah voters will be asked at special town meetings on Tuesday night to restore the town’s full share of the Tri-Town Ambulance Service budget, make additional payments to the town’s medicare and social security funds and finance an independent tax collector position.
There will be two special meetings back to back, beginning at 7 p.m. The first is to take up business postponed in July after the town failed to achieve a quorum.
A quorum of 39 voters is needed.