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The Vineyard’s Wampanoag tribe is preparing to mount a legal challenge to the Cape Wind project.
In a press release on Monday, the tribe announced it had retained counsel and gave as its reason the fact that the federal Interior Department had declined the tribe’s latest request for a meeting.
Interior Secretary Kenneth Salazar already has held several meetings, on the Vineyard, the Cape and in Washington, with tribal spokesmen who oppose the plan to build a wind farm on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound.
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Like most other young men and women in the days following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which immediately drew the United States into World War II, Islander Tom Hale wanted very badly to enlist in the armed forces and fight for his country.
Mr. Hale had just graduated from Milton Academy and tried to join the Navy, but was turned down for physical reasons. Then he tried the Air Force, but also was turned down. Finally he tried the Army Officer Training Corps, but still had no luck. Things got so bad, even the draft turned him down.
Fiscal reform is the central theme as four candidates vie for one selectman’s seat in Oak Bluffs this year.
The candidates are Karen Achille, Gail Barmakian, Kris Chvatal and Kenneth Davey.
The annual town election is next Thursday; polling will take place at the Oak Bluffs library from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The open selectman’s seat is being vacated by Kerry Scott, who decided not to run again this year after two terms.
For 90 per cent of its duration, Tuesday’s Tisbury special town meeting went almost impossibly smoothly for town officials. But they fell at the last hurdle.
As is so often the case in Tisbury, the bone of contention was dog laws. Specifically, an article proposing penalties for breaches of a town policy prohibiting dogs from municipal buildings. It provided for a written warning for a first offense, and a $25 fine for every subsequent offense.
Nate Sprague remembers what it was like not to have a skate park on the Island. Lots of running from the cops to avoid hefty fines or a confiscated skateboard.
“It was fun, because we would get chased by the cops,” he joked, sitting on a bench overlooking the park this week. “That was cool, being a little kid. You see it in the movies.”