A long-running rent dispute between Dukes County and the Martha's Vineyard Airport dissolved Wednesday in an amicable resolution.

Aquinnah Opens Annual Town Meeting with Free Cash Unsettled Once Again

By MAX HART

After a tumultuous fiscal year that saw three failed attempts at a Proposition 2 1/2 override, an operating budget pared to the bone and the use of reserve funds to pay for basic town services, Aquinnah voters will look for a new start at their annual town meeting on Tuesday night.

State Appellate Tax Board Hears Testimony in West Tisbury Case

By IAN FEIN

BOSTON - Attorneys for Island resident William W. Graham charged in a legal hearing this week that West Tisbury assessors deliberately falsified property records that inflated his land values and increased his taxes.

"At heart this case is about fraud," Mr. Graham's attorney, Richard Wulsin, told the chairman of the Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board.

The FARM Institute angered many of its new neighbors this week with a plan to hold a two-night summer fundraising concert for as many as 10,000 peo

Chilmark voters breezed through their annual town meeting on Monday night without batting an eye, approved a $5.7 million budget and voted in favor of the Martha's Vineyard Housing Bank and two versions of a renewable energy resolution along the way.

But when they came to the final vote of the evening -- whether to use $23,000 from the community preservation committee's open space reserve fund to fight an invasive reed in Chilmark Pond -- the debate began over how to vanquish the mighty phragmite.

Homegrown Forum Set to Tackle Energy Conservation for Future

By IAN FEIN

The total energy bill for Martha's Vineyard this year will approach $65 million, according to a study conducted by an energy consultant this winter.

And although more solar roofs are appearing on the Island landscape, the consultant found that less than one-tenth of one per cent of the Vineyard's energy is produced on the Island. The rest comes from the mainland, either by boat or underwater cable.