Sam Bungey
Melissa Freitag pitches herself as the all-rounder candidate.
“I have the strongest professional, educational and strongest contribution to local government as a package,” she said, adding:
“I have a history of public service, and not on a per-hour stipend. I’m not doing this for my own health. One thing I teach is that the state exists at the will of the people and it can’t function without the volunteerism of the people.”
She emphasizes her educational qualifications.
With the election of a new Cape and Islands state representative days away, campaign finance reports released this week show Vineyard candidate Daniel Larkosh outspending his opponents three to one.
The committee to elect Mr. Larkosh, who won the Democratic primary, spent $31,200 in the period between August 30, two weeks before the Massachusetts primary, and Oct. 17.
There was no quorum for an Aquinnah special town meeting Tuesday night, delaying some $25,000 in spending requests and frustrating town leaders.
Town moderator Walter E. Delaney rescheduled the meeting for Nov. 13.
Aquinnah town meetings have been blighted by low attendance this year. Of the seven gatherings to date this year for either special or annual town meetings just three have secured and maintained a quorum for long enough to complete business.
With less than two weeks until election day, an endorsement race has begun between two of the four candidates for the Cape and Islands state representative seat being vacated by Eric T. Turkington. The other two candidates downplayed the significance of endorsements and argued that they can come at a political price.
A lone Democrat and three independents are running for the seat.
A detailed preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board draws no conclusions on what caused the Cape Air crash which killed pilot Capt. David Willey, a resident of Vineyard Haven, on Sept. 26.
But the full report, according to Luke Schiada, chief investigator of the crash for the NTSB which has involved local, state and federal authorities, may take six to eight months to complete.
“It is important to note we are still in the information gathering stage. There is a lot of data we are still waiting to get,” he said.
The national hot button issues of financial security and high fuel prices as they relate to one of the Island’s largest institutions occupied members of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School committee at a meeting Monday night.
The question of whether the high school’s money is safely secured was brought up by committee member Susan Parker at a budget subcommittee meeting and again at the high school committee meeting.