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The Illumination

The Vineyard Gazette | Friday, August 20 1869 - 12:30pm

The readers of the Gazette will please bear with us this week for the lack of extended news of local affairs. We are publishing the Camp Meeting Herald, daily and it occupies so much of time and labor that we are unable to pay that degree of attention to the Gazette as is our custom. We reproduce a number of articles from the Herald, which are well worth reading.

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Camp Meeting Association Appoints General Manager

The Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meeting Association has appointed Kim Rielly as its general manager.

Tabernacle Suits Withdrawn Against Oak Bluffs

Aidan Pollard

The Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association has withdrawn both of the lawsuits it filed against Oak Bluffs this summer in response to town board decisions approving a planned roof replacement and 1,300 square-foot addition to the Tabernacle.

Camp Ground Residents Organize for Change Article updated

Louisa Hufstader

Members of a newly formed leaseholders’ coalition want a change in Camp Meeting Association leadership and a vote in how the Camp Ground is managed. But the group is facing an uphill battle against more than a century and a half of past practice.

Camp Meeting Association Files Second Suit Over Tabernacle Regulation

Aidan Pollard

The Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association has sued the town of Oak Bluffs for the second time this summer, seeking to reverse conditions imposed in the approval of a special permit for the construction of an auxiliary structure at the Camp Ground Tabernacle.

Money Matters

Brian Hughes

On May 15, 2021 the citizens of Oak Bluffs gave the Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association $315,000 to help fix the roof on the Tabernacle.

Camp Ground Residents Push Back Over Decision to Sue Planning Board

Louisa Hufstader

Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meeting Association leaseholders have begun to question the direction of the community’s board members, including a recent decision to sue the Oak Bluffs Planning Board.