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A Mashpee woman was convicted on Monday in federal court of having embezzled some $145,000 over eight years from the Steamship Authority.
Armine E. Sabatini, 46, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf to two counts of embezzlement and two counts of wire fraud.
She is scheduled for sentencing on Nov. 17, and faces up to 20 years in prison and up to $250,000 in fines on each of the wire fraud counts and up to 10 years and $250,000 on each of the embezzlement counts.
As Islanders get accustomed to the newly-built, state-of-the art YMCA in their midst, they are simultaneously getting acquainted with Julian Villegas, the senior program director there. The soft-spoken Columbian native is quickly making himself known as a warm and welcoming ambassador for the YMCA’s mission of bringing families and communities together.
One evening when author Paul Greenberg was 10 years old his father dropped him off at Menemsha. That night he would pull six glistening iridescent squeteague from the waters around the jetty.
“I thought I was going to be rich beyond my wildest dreams,” Mr. Greenberg said in an interview at the same spot on Wednesday.
Everett Poole of Poole’s Fish Market sat Mr. Greenberg down and told him he would take the fish off his hands for 65 cents a pound. It was the first fish he ever sold.
The Vineyard’s first offshore farm-raised blue mussels will be distributed among Island fish markets and a few restaurants this weekend. The shellfish are being grown as part of a federally and locally-funded offshore aquaculture experiment to bring farm-raised blue mussels to market on the Island.
Tisbury and Oak Bluffs have begun examining the legal means by which they might merge their two police forces and have approached the state Department of Revenue (DOR) for help in determining how a merger might happen.
Oak Bluffs town administrator Michael Dutton confirmed yesterday that he had had discussions with the DOR with a view to having it produce a report on the feasibility of such a merger.
Dr. Phyllis R. Silverman has joined the board of directors of the Island-based nonprofit Men’s Bereavement Group. A noted researcher in the field of grief and the needs of the bereaved, Dr. Silverman is also recognized for her contributions to the use of mutual help groups.