With a capacity of just 100 people and an increasing demand for its services, the Martha’s Vineyard Boys and Girls Club has outgrown its current facility. Now an ambitious plan to expand the clubhouse seems within reach.
On March 2, the federal government issued the last of its pandemic SNAP allotments, but a $1.3 million grant to the Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation is helping keep Islanders fed.
Competition will come second to community at the first annual Boys and Girls Jamboree basketball tournament this Saturday, hosted by the Martha's Vineyard Boys and Girls Club.
The weather outside may be frightful, but that didn't stop a group of Vineyarders from taking a dip in the cold waters off State Beach on Saturday to raise money for the boys and girls club.
The DJ Henry Dream Fund is sponsoring a new basketball league at the Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club, its first initiative on the Island. The program begins this weekend with a clinic on Saturday.
The Martha’s Vineyard Boys and Girls Club completed a long-planned purchase late last week of 21 acres in Edgartown, marking a major step toward building a new facility for the club.
The Edgartown select board checked the final box on the town memorandum of understanding with the Boys and Girls Club, and brainstormed capital wastewater projects for the Dukes County federal Covid-19 relief money at their meeting Tuesday.
