Government
The addition of a film festival to Grange Hall activities has led some in town hall to require a new special permit for the historic facility.
Howes House in West Tisbury, home base for the Up-Island Council on Aging, would be a better place for old folks if it also served younger people, West Tisbury resident Susan Silk told the town select board on August 17.
The embattled Tisbury School renovation and addition project took another step forward this week when work began to gut the school gym.
Dukes County commissioners will seek to begin a dialogue with the state, Oak Bluffs and Edgartown about safety issues at the big bridge following the tragic deaths of brothers Tavaughn and Tavaris Bulgin last weekend.
A tightly contested race for Dukes County sheriff and a wide-open race for the Dukes County Commission are among the choices Island voters will face in the state’s primary election Sept. 6.
A project to build an electric car charging station in the Chilmark School parking lot got support, and questions, from the select board.