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Members of the Up-Island School District came to the Aquinnah select board with two projects in mind during Tuesday’s Zoom meeting: funding for Chilmark School’s heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system, and West Tisbury’s roof.  Select board member Juli Vanderhoop could not attend the meeting because she was holding her “Honey Talk” event through […]

The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah has asked Gov. Charlie Baker to enter into negotiations for a Class III casino compact, according to a letter sent by the tribe to Baker. In a letter dated Sept. 8, Aquinnah Wampanoag chairwoman Cheryl Andrews-Maltais requests the compact negotiations. A Class III casino under the state’s gambling […]

The Aquinnah select board gave their approval of replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day in a unanimous vote Tuesday. The symbolic approval during Tuesday’s select board meeting made Aquinnah, current home base of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), the first town to officially endorse Indigenous Peoples Day.  “Clearly, if there’s any town […]

The Massachusetts State Ethics Commission held a hearing Tuesday regarding Aquinnah select board member Gary Haley, who was accused by the commission in May of allegedly overbilling the town of Aquinnah by more than $4,000 for electrical conduit work in 2018. The commission also alleges that Haley also approved the payment to himself and two […]

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The Marthas Vineyard Times Aquinnah official hit with ethics violation Commonwealth alleges select board member Gary Haley approved his own work for the town. Aquinnah select board member Gary Haley, shown here in a 2019 meeting of the board, has been accused of an ethics law violation. -Lucas Thors The state’s ethics commission has found reasonable cause Aquinnah select board member Gary Haley violated state ethics law by choosing himself “to perform electrical infrastructure w...

The Marthas Vineyard Times Aquinnah plans to invite tribe to the table Selectmen agree to send a letter to reopen talks. The Aquinnah board of selectmen will invite Cheryl Andews-Maltais and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) back to the table to talk about their casino project. -Gabrielle Mannino The Aquinnah board of selectmen will reach out to the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) through a letter inviting them back to the table to talk about the tribe’s gambling f...

Innovative new secondary school approved in North-East to open in September A NEW "innovative" school in the North-East has been approved by the government and hopes to open this September. Plans for a new secondary school with a unique curriculum in Gateshead have been approved by the Department for Education (DfE). XP Gateshead will focus on the expeditionary learning model of the XP School in Doncaster, which has been recognised by Ofsted as Outstanding in all areas and will be ba...