The overflow crowd gathered at the Chilmark Public Library to hear renowned Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz on Wednesday evening did not know it going in, but they were about to hear from an indicted felon.
An international criminal, if you will, for his offense was not committed in this country but in Italy.
In summary, the circumstances are these: Several years ago an Italian newspaper contacted him, seeking his views on an Italian judge who had freed a group of terrorists, on the basis that they were actually “freedom fighters.”
The town of Tisbury is pushing to have the Island stop using the grant-writing company whose mistake cost the Vineyard $2 million in state community development block grants for next year.
At Tuesday night’s meeting, the town selectmen expressed anger and frustration at the failure by the company which made the grant applications on behalf of five of the six Island towns, and instructed Tisbury town administrator John Bugbee to work with his counterparts in other towns to find someone else to prepare future grant applications.
A state government plan to open waters close to the south shore of Martha’s Vineyard to industrial-scale wind power generation now appears unlikely to proceed, following the release of a draft wind energy plan by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.
If there is one statistic that attests to the way in which Martha’s Vineyard Community Services has become crucial to the to the well-being of Islanders, it is the one board president Wiet Bacheller now recites.
Some 6,000 people — a number equal to about one-third of the resident population — come into contact with Community Services each year.
Fifty years ago, when the organization first started its helping work, the year-round population of the Vineyard was less than that.
State health officials will today conduct an inspection of the Aquinnah laboratory whose fluctuating test results have led to a series of recent beach closures on Martha’s Vineyard.
Late yesterday a spokeswoman for the state Department of Public Health, Jennifer Manley, confirmed the audit of the Wampanoag tribe lab, but said it was routine and not related to recent results of water sampling.
The Steamship Authority has decided against closing its offsite booking office, at least for the foreseeable future, although it will relocate.
Tuesday’s July meeting of the SSA board of governors at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven was told the boat line would advertise this week for new premises and already has had preliminary discussions with management at the airport about moving there.
