Work on Tisbury’s new $7.4 million emergency services building is expected to be delayed at least a month so a botched job of laying the concrete floor can be fixed.
The floor in the apparatus bay was designed to have a slight fall, allowing it to drain. But the concrete workers failed to follow the specifications, so water drains the wrong way and forms pools, a potential danger to emergency services workers.
A bookkeeper for the Steamship Authority who embezzled almost $145,000 over some eight years has been sentenced to a year in prison and ordered to make full restitution to the boat line.
Armine Estelle Sabatini was sentenced last Friday by chief U.S. District Court Judge Mark L. Wolf. She also will have to pay an additional $4,000 fine and be subject to three years’ parole after release from prison. Ms. Sabatini will report to prison at noon on Jan. 25, 2011, to begin her time.
Christmas Decorations
With an Ulterior Motive
There was no triumphalism about Dan Wolf’s first visit with the Democratic party faithful of the Vineyard after he won his state senate seat last month. Quite the reverse.
It seems, on its face, a ludicrous mismatch.
On the one side, the legal might of the United States Coast Guard and Department of the Interior, and on the other a small bunch of fishermen armed with books of raffle tickets, bags of shellfish and, reportedly, Warren Doty’s banjo.
It has been more than 40 years since the publication of the book The Archaeology of Martha’s Vineyard, which identified a long, rich history of human habitation stretching back at least 4,000 years, “on this relatively unravaged Island.”
Now, finally, the last of the Vineyard’s towns, Tisbury, is moving to find out just where that history may lie, lest it be ravaged accidentally in the future.
Tisbury is seeking $20,000 in a grant under the Community Preservation Act to map its archaeology.
