Are you the harbor master?
That's usually the first question from boaters who have an inquiry or request when they visit, call or hail the harbor master station on the VHF radio. It might be a polite matter of course, but it may also be a subtle response to the young face - or voice - that answers back.
In a casual survey of the Island's four harbors this week, there was no one over the age of 23 holding down the fort. The average age was 19 and a half
It was a claustrophobe's nightmare and a hungry man's dream at the 37th annual Tisbury Street Fair on Sunday night.
The 50 year-old regional high school agreement remains intact, but the trust that has been its mortar for decades may be broken.
Following a special town meeting vote in Chilmark last week, the cost of operating the regional high school, for the first time in school history will be divided among the six Island towns based on a state formula, rather than the enrollment-based formula spelled out in the regional agreement.
Chilmark Votes Its Assessment for the Regional High School, Marking Final Town Needed; Edgartown Lacks Quorum
Two days shy of the start of the new fiscal year, the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School has a budget. Chilmark voters became heroes last night when they said yes to an amended high school budget, marking the fourth and final town approval needed in a tangled regional school assessment odyssey that has dragged on for months.
Earlier this month, the state reclaimed the brush breaker fire truck it loaned to the town of West Tisbury several years ago to fight fires in the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest.
West Tisbury fire chief Manuel Estrella 3rd said the repossession is just one example of how the state is shirking its responsibility for caretaking the 5,168-acre state forest.
