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Dukes County sheriff candidates fielded questions from a room full of voters on August 30 in one of their last chances to define their differences in style and substance ahead of the Sept. 6 primary.
The funding is the first of four planned allocations totaling $6 million from the Massachusetts 5-year Capital Investment Plan for repair and replacement of the 1873 regional jail and lockup facility in Edgartown.
A professional fisherman of five decades, Tom Turner has also run one of the Island’s only sawmills for the last 15 years. During that time, he has processed nearly every kind of tree that grows here, native and not, common and exotic.
The Veterans Administration Providence Healthcare System will provide medical services and lead a town hall meeting at the American Legion Hall on Sept. 13.
A three-way race between attorneys Melissa Alden, John Carey and Daniel Higgins is on in the Republican primary for Cape and Islands district attorney. One Democrat, Robert Galibois, is running unopposed.
Early voting is underway in all Island towns in advance of the Tuesday, Sept. 6 Massachusetts primary elections for state offices from governor to sheriff.