Thomas Humphrey
Bethany Hammond, assistant director of the Up-Island Council on Aging, will be taking over as new director of the organization next month.
Chilmark landscaper, caretaker and former fishmonger Jeffrey Maida won a race for town select board on Wednesday night, narrowly beating out William Meegan by a vote of 267 to 222.
West Tisbury residents will get a chance this week to weigh in on what path their town should take in the coming decades at a series of public visioning sessions put on as part of the town’s Master Plan development process.
Town meeting-floor modifications to the warrant led to a compromise solution, with a seven-member committee to be appointed by town moderator Janet Wiedner.
A new chapter in Island environmental restoration is blooming in a laboratory on the shores of the Lagoon. There, in a cool tub of water at a Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group Hatchery, a small artificial meadow of eelgrass is beginning to flower.
A controversy over management of the Chilmark Community Center and the town tennis courts continued to roil the small up-Island town this weekend. A forum Sunday morning quickly grew contentious.