The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank is seeking legal advice on whether major changes being carried out to Crow Hollow Farm by its new owner breach an agricultural preservation restriction (APR) on the property.
The land bank acquired the APR from the previous owners, the Look family, in 2002, for $403,000. Until recently Samantha Look ran a riding school on the property.
Tisbury is looking at signing onto a state program which offers millions of dollars in grant money to communities which undertake policies to cut their energy use by 20 per cent, and make themselves friendly for alternative energy development.
The next meeting of the town selectmen will hear a presentation organized by town administrator John Bugbee on the benefits of joining the Green Communities Program from a state-nominated consultant who would then help navigate the requirements for entry to the program.
No good deed ever goes unpunished. And so, as Jules Feiffer told an overflow audience at the Katharine Cornell Theatre last Saturday night, after he wrote the screenplay for the 1971 film Carnal Knowledge, his Hollywood career stalled for a decade or more.
Mr. Feiffer knew he was in trouble even before the movie came out. He recalled a couple of the comments made by the Hollywood heavy-hitter directors after they had seen a preview screening.
On Sunday President Obama will leave Martha’s Vineyard for New Orleans, for the fifth anniversary of its devastation by Hurricane Katrina. On Tuesday, he will travel to Texas, where he will meet with troops, and that night at 8 p.m. he will address the nation about the Iraq war from the Oval Office.
Things will return to normal for the man with the toughest job in the world.
A Mashpee woman was convicted on Monday in federal court of having embezzled some $145,000 over eight years from the Steamship Authority.
Armine E. Sabatini, 46, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf to two counts of embezzlement and two counts of wire fraud.
She is scheduled for sentencing on Nov. 17, and faces up to 20 years in prison and up to $250,000 in fines on each of the wire fraud counts and up to 10 years and $250,000 on each of the embezzlement counts.
Tisbury and Oak Bluffs have begun examining the legal means by which they might merge their two police forces and have approached the state Department of Revenue (DOR) for help in determining how a merger might happen.
Oak Bluffs town administrator Michael Dutton confirmed yesterday that he had had discussions with the DOR with a view to having it produce a report on the feasibility of such a merger.
