A 10-article special town meeting in Chilmark next week will focus on projects in Menemsha and around Tea Lane. The meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, at the Chilmark Community Center.

Aquinnah voters on Tuesday sped through a 10-article special town meeting warrant — the first of the season on the Island — approving $111,200 in spending proposals.

The South Road home, owned by eight generations of the same family for more than 300 years, is getting its most complete makeover since it was built in 1713.

The Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group on Friday accepted a $135,693 federal grant that will allow it to continue studying the invasive wetland grass phragmites, which it believes could play a role in reducing the amount of nitrogen in coastal ponds.

A proposed bylaw amendment aims to preserve pre-Civil War houses in Chilmark by amending the residential building size bylaw.

As the new director of the Martha's Vineyard Commission, collaboration, starting discussions, affordable housing — and a few family trips to the beach — have been on Adam Turner's agenda.