A crowd gathered behind the Aquinnah Firehouse for the groundbreaking ceremony of the Aquinnah Town Center Apartments on Thursday afternoon. The four residential units will house four families, and are slated to be inhabited starting July 1st of next year. The apartments will provide affordable housing with preference to Aquinnah residents, or to those with […]
During a Tuesday meeting, the Aquinnah select board unanimously approved town clerk Gabriella Camilleri’s request to have a police presence during the state primary and state elections, which take place at the town hall from 7 am to 8 pm on September 6 and November 8 respectively. The officer would also stay during the vote […]
The Aquinnah select board unanimously voted to reissue the request for proposal (RFP) for the 9 Aquinnah Circle property, which came under debate during a previous meeting, during a Tuesday meeting. This time around, representatives from the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) and Aquinnah Cultural Center will be included in the RFP process. Two […]
Drums beat while the Black Brook Singers, an Aquinnah group specializing in powwow and the traditional eastern Native American singing, performed a song signaling the beginning of the first celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day on Martha’s Vineyard. Once the drums quieted, the wind whispered through as the audience listened in hushed silence to the […]