An Edgartown man was arrested at gunpoint last Thursday afternoon after he tried to pull a handgun from his backpack at a construction site on Fisher Road. Emery E. Johnson, 38, of 40 Pine street, was apprehended by police following a brief chase through a wooded area and charged with possession of a firearm without a license.
He is currently being held on $5,000 bail at the Dukes County Jail.
Clarence (Trip) Barnes, owner of Barnes Trucking and a well-known community volunteer and charity auctioneer, appeared before the West Tisbury selectmen on Wednesday to plead for resolution to a rapidly escalating struggle over his property on State Road.
The town building inspector wants him to clean up the property, which has been the subject of numerous zoning violations and legal disputes over recent years. But Mr. Barnes is asking the town for leeway as he works to complete an affordable housing project he is personally funding in the back of the property.
Against the strong objections of the chairman of the finance advisory committee, and one of its own members, the Oak Bluffs selectmen on Tuesday voted to adopt a $24.5 million budget for next year, approving several budget overrides and putting salary increases for town and school employees back into the budget at the last minute.
Three different start-up companies are pursuing plans to radically expand the Island’s broadband connections, and in the process dramatically improve the Island’s cell phone, Internet and cable television service.
OpenCape Corp, based in West Barnstable, is planning a wireless network with 350 miles of fiber-optic cable connecting more than 60 anchor institutions: hospitals, schools, municipalities and research institutions where direct connections to the network will be built.
The Army Corps of Engineers will spend $5 million to resume clearing unexploded bombs left behind on Vineyard beaches during World War II training exercises.
The money will be used to locate munitions in four shoreline areas on Chappaquiddick, Edgartown and West Tisbury owned by The Trustees of Reservations and the state: Little Neck at Cape Pogue, Norton Point, Long Point Wildlife Refuge in West Tisbury and South Beach in Edgartown.
Penelope H. Dickens, an Oak Bluffs woman known for her work as a community volunteer and kind nature, died in a single car accident on Route 495 in Wareham on Monday evening, when the vehicle she was driving veered off the road, crashed into the woods and caught fire, police said this week.
