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Framework for recognition: Gaining historic status could become easier for stone homeowners

CAPE VINCENT — The acting president of the Stone Building Appreciation Society of Northern N… The stone houses of Jefferson County that dot the landscape like sentinels honoring our early settlers could be taking a solid step in recognition and preservation. Among the 20 recommendations made by the state Board of Historic Preservation earlier this year for state and national registers of historic places, one is for “Stone Buildings of Jefferson County.” Specifically, a “Stone Houses of Jefferson County Multiple Property Documentation Form” would serve as a framework for the structures to be placed on the historic registers. Participation by owners would be optional.

2 claim Nantucket officials silenced them in racist graffiti case

NANTUCKET Two Black residents of Nantucket have sued several town officials, claiming they were “muzzled” when they asked why the investigation into racist graffiti at the African Meeting House was taking so long.  James Barros and Rose Marie Samuels filed suit against the town, Select Board, town administrator and the police chief, saying their freedom of speech was violated during public meetings and their right to access the meeting house without threats or intimidation was violated by whoever did the graffiti.  “Unhappy with the content of Ms. Samuel’s and Mr. Barros’s exercise of their free speech rights criticizing the Nantucket Police Department, the Town Administrator, and the Select Board … immediately sought to silence their speech through threats, intimidation, or coercion,” the suit read.

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