
Town Hall Meeting: The Cortes Airstrip
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - About 125 people turned up for the town hall meeting in Mansons Hall, on Monday June 3, 2024. Noticeably absent were the air strip’s owner, Michael Ching, his manager, Judy Kemchand, or Martene Rothblatt, who is financing the air strip’s renovations. This did not come as a surprise. One of the three speakers at the meeting read out an email he sent Rothblatt in February: “I am writing to see if there is a chance I (we) can persuade you from paving the airstrip.” “If left as a gravelled surface we have a better chance of preserving our wonderful island and…
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