A former West Tisbury school teacher accused of providing alcohol and pornographic materials to former students and hosting underage drinking parties at his home was found guilty on 10 felony charges this week following a two-day trial in Edgartown district court.
Calling it a test of town priorities, the executive director of the Island Affordable Housing Fund this week asked the Oak Bluffs Community Preservation Committee to commit another $400,000 to the financially troubled Bradley Square project, in the name of historic preservation.
A man deer hunting on Chappaquiddick Saturday morning was accidentally shot by a member of his party — marking the second time in a less than a week someone has mistakenly been shot during the ongoing hunting season.
A spokesperson for the state environmental police said the man caught a shotgun slug while on a private property on Cape Pogue just before 11 a.m. on Saturday.
A plan to build a distributed antenna system to boost cell phone coverage in the three up-Island towns took a step forward this week when Aquinnah and Chilmark approved plans by American Tower Company to build the system. Approval came during a four-hour meeting between the towns on Monday at the Chilmark Community Center.
But the plans took a step backwards when Aquinnah officials determined the vote by the planning board review committee was invalid because only five of seven members were present.
Islanders go the polls in the state primary on Tuesday to cast votes that will help choose Democratic and Republican candidates to run for the Massachusetts seat in the U.S. Senate left vacant in August when longtime Sen. Edward M. Kennedy — who held the seat for 46 years — died after a 14-month battle with brain cancer.
Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. in every town.
A Cape Cod man was accidentally shot in the neck on the first day of shotgun deer season on Monday in the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest. Dr. Joseph Asiaf, 73, of Centerville, caught a single piece of buckshot in the neck; police believe he was shot by a member of his own hunting party.
His injuries are not life-threatening.
Although the Massachusetts state police continue to investigate, the incident is being called a hunting accident and no criminal charges are expected.