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The Edgartown conservation commission Wednesday voted to allow no more than 200 vehicles at a time on the Trustees’ Leland and Wasque parcels, and no more than 30 on the Cape Pogue trails.
John Stevens will head Edgartown School on an interim basis, with the school’s longtime guidance counselor Deborah DeBettencourt becoming assistant principal.
In a presentation to the select board Tuesday, Tighe & Bond, the company in charge of the East Chop revetment and coastal bank restoration project, anticipated that construction could start September 2025 and potentially end in May 2027.
Aquinnah voters Tuesday also approved the town's $7.1 million budget and backed funding for town building repairs.
Susan Backlinie, who played the doomed skinny dipper Chrissie Watkins in Jaws, died May 11 at 77. The movie was released in 1975 and Ms. Backlinie became an enduring screen icon as the shark's first victim.
Rolling With the Locals
May 16, 2024
Abbie Bender and Danielle Mulcahy are producing a variety show called Locals on May 17 and 18 at the Grange Hall in West Tisbury.
MVC Hosts Climate Action Fair
May 16, 2024
The Martha’s Vineyard Commission hosts its annual Climate Action Fair on Sunday, May 19 at the Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury from noon to 4 p.m.
Environmental Film Festival Opens Thursday
May 16, 2024
The Martha’s Vineyard Film Society opens its annual environmental film festival on May 23.
Oak Bluffs to Honor Dennis daRosa
May 14, 2024
The Oak Bluffs Association will honor the memory of Dennis daRosa on May 26 with a plaque to be unveiled at the information booth at the foot of Circuit avenue in Oak Bluffs.
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From the May 12, 1967 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:
After all the excitement of the past several weeks with the Menemsha post office, here one minute and gone the next, and then back for the summer only, then possibly back for all year, it seemed advisable to take a trip to the other side of the Island to find out how the Menemsha postmaster, William C. Seward, was surviving.
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