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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 facility.
“Invite them back to the table so we can talk and make it clear that this board of selectmen was never against the casino,” Newman said. “We were just trying to work with them so we can cooperate with whatever is going on, because whatever they have there is certainly going to impact the town one way or the other, and we need to work together on this. And it’s difficult.”
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IGI prepares for upcoming growing season
Food Pantry in the works at P.A. Club; Thimble Farm prepares to maximize food production and minimize impact on soil.
Lynne Whiting, board president, and Tim Connelly, field manager, clean harvested butternut squash.
Island Grown to Go frozen soup.
The IGI Mobile Market delivers fresh produce directly to Islanders.
As the growing season approaches, Island Grown Initiative (IGI) is working on a number of projects to maximize production and access to fresh, healthy foods for the Vineyard. Laura Seguin, the development and communications coordinator for IGI, told The Times that now that IGI has merged with the Island Food Pantry and is moving the pantry location to the Portuguese-American Club in Oak Bluffs, food professionals at Thimble Farm are planning on ways to fill that space with locally grown produce.