News

Aquinnah voters approved a hefty hike in the town operating budget for the coming year and backed a spending package to help restore and ready the Gay Head Light for moving at their annual town...
Turnout was light at the Aquinnah polls on Wednesday for the annual town election. Of the 369 registered voters, a total of 65 voters, or 17 per cent, participated. The ballot featured a Proposition...
Aquinnah voters wrapped up the annual town meeting season on Tuesday night, approving nearly all 30 warrant articles but stopping short at the final item of the night to defeat a measure that would...

Celebrations

Evan Hall of Aquinnah was named to the fall 2012 dean’s list at Berklee College of Music. 
Claudine and Brendan Hanley of New York city and Aquinnah announce the birth of a daughter, Sarah O’Shea Hanley, born on March 28 at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York city. Sarah weighed 7.4 pounds at...
Donna O’Brien of Boulder, Colo., daughter of Donna and Richard O’Brien of Boulder, will marry Patrick Sullivan of Rochester, N.Y., son of Barry and Dorothy Sullivan, of Rochester and Aquinnah. Donna...

Obituaries

Emory Alan Francis died at his Aquinnah home on Monday, May 20. He was 70.
Ruth Waters Johnson, mother, friend and grandmother, died on Saturday, March 2 at the age of 85. Born outside Philadelphia in 1927, Ruth lived life full-tilt, from the sidewalks of New York to the...