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Court Report: Week Ending May 3
The following cases were heard in Edgartown District Court. Brian Caraballo, 24, of Hoboken, N.J, was arraigned on April 7 charges in Edgartown of assault and battery on a family or household member. His bail was set at $400 and a pretrial hearing was scheduled for June 17. April 19.
'It still feels fresh for us.' Crystal Perry's unsolved killing disturbs Mashpee family
MASHPEE — On June 11, 2013 Ariel Price-Perry was watching her aunt Crystal Perry cook food for a spirit fire that was being held for a Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe member who had recently died. "Just like good ol' Mashpee would do. It was a good ol' regular day," said Price-Perry, who is a member of the tribe. Darryl Green was also there, said Price-Perry, and her aunt's boyfriend at the time Kristofer Williams. Price-Perry's mother was...
Fifty Years of Fishing Fun at Kids Trout Tournament
Barn swallows flitted amidst the drizzle at Duarte’s Pond in West Tisbury Wednesday morning, where a group of volunteers had gathered by the shore to await a truckload of trout. It was pond stocking day for the Kid’s Trout Tournament which begins at daybreak on Saturday, May 4.
East Chop Capital Raises $11M To Invest In Luxury Vacation Rental Homes
East Chop’s latest fund raising comes as the global vacation rental market is expected to exceed $130 billion by 2033. Hoping to build generational wealth for Black Americans, East Chop Capital has closed its second fund at $11 million. A Black-owned private equity firm, the business plans to use...
Elder Services opens Café Saborosa at Mashpee Senior Center
Caribbean, Cape Verdean and Portuguese cuisine are coming to the Elder Services of Cape Cod and the Islands’ senior social dining. Café Saborosa opens on May 6 inside the Mashpee Senior Center. Each Monday, Elder Services will run the café serving up dishes from the Caribbean menu created by their partners City Fresh Foods, according to a press release.
Recent Real Estate Transactions: Week Ending April 26
Daniel Cohen, Edward M Levy and Alison Rose Levy purchased property at 437 State Road in Aquinnah from Jonathan Alexander Schoenberg and Megan Battle Schoenberg on April 24 for $2,225,000. Edgartown. Dino Miano and Marilena Miano purchased property at 28 Woodhaven Drive in Edgartown from Blaine Fairmount LLC on April...
West Tisbury Pulls Plan To Remove Cemetery Fence
The deteriorating fence enclosing the West Tisbury cemetery will remain in place after the select board this week withdrew its application to remove most of the pickets. The board sought to ditch portions of the fence to solve the burden of maintenance costs, said select board member Jessica Miller at a meeting Monday. But the idea faced pushback from the town’s historic district commission, which has urged for the fence to be preserved.
'A precipice.' More open land, less development is before Mashpee town meeting voters
When Mashpee Community Preservation Committee chair Arden Cadrin was the Mashpee Planning Board recording secretary in the 1990s, she remembers working until 1 a.m. every other Wednesday trying to keep up with a period of what she calls "massive development." South Bend apartments came in, and Windchime, and Stratford Farms...
Edgartown Town Column: May 3
April showers bring May flowers as the saying goes and it is not wrong. The trees are starting to burst, the spring bulbs are up and blooming and it is time to start bringing out the annuals. Happy Birthday to all who celebrated their day this past week. Big balloons...
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