Dukes County News

Did you see that thing in the sky? Photo illustration by Cooper Davis. On the evening of Sept.

Oak Bluffs selectmen voted emergency housing money, began to consider substantial cost cutting moves, and discussed repairs and improvements in town parks last week.

The Island Affordable Housing Fund provided half the money needed to fund subsidies in the Dukes County Regional Housing Authority rental assistance program Friday.

To Islanders, the debate over the Cape Wind plan for Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound was a curiosity, except to fervent wind energy enthusiasts.

Island officials differed over what was achieved at their meeting Friday with state Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Ian Bowles.

Two men were arrested Tuesday morning as they brought heroin and cocaine to the Island for street distribution, according to police.

The debate over whether to build the country's first offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound is no stranger to challenges.

It appears that tenants will be secure at least through January in the four Island towns where rental housing contracts were put in jeopardy two weeks ago, when the Island Affordable Housing Fund could not pay the monthly subsidies.

Over the past several weeks, news about problem dogs and how Island town officials dealt with them raised many questions about available options.

Revealing deep fault lines in its financial affairs, the Island Affordable Housing Fund announced abruptly this week that it can no longer pay for the county rental assistance program, pulling the rug out from under hundreds of Islanders who depend on the program for stable year-round housing.

The all-Island seasonal flu vaccination clinic, scheduled Wednesday, November 11, is limited to 1,200 doses that will be given on a first come, first served basis.

Jason Canha, a 36-year-old special agent with the Air Force, was serving at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan last summer when he received four large boxes from the Vineyard.

Last Wednesday the Dukes County Superior Courtroom benches were all occupied, but not with the usual suspects.

Oak Bluffs selectmen voted to begin legal action against the Nova Vida Church at 1 Ryan's Way, during their Tuesday meeting.

Even as real estate sales volume rose statewide, the number of single-family homes sold on Cape Cod fell by 3.2 percent last month, according to numbers released yesterday by The Warren Group.

The U.S. Small Business Administration is making loans of up to $2 million to a variety of businesses affected by the summer's abnormally cool, wet weather.

Reacting to the latest information on the availability of both seasonal and H1N1 flu vaccines, Island public health officials yesterday announced that the vaccine for H1N1 would not be available at the all-Island seasonal flu clinic scheduled for Wednesday, Nov.

Talk about dogs and docks took up much of the Tisbury selectmen's meeting on Tuesday at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven.

The Martha's Vineyard Commission last Thursday voted 12 to 1 to accept a nomination to create an Island wind district of critical planning concern that would cover the airspace above 220 feet over the waters of Dukes County.

At 3:17 pm Monday afternoon, in the second floor courtroom of the Dukes County Courthouse, a court officer slipped chains and handcuffs around Kaleb Garde's gaunt wrists and ankles.