Chilmark voters head to a special town meeting tonight, Sept. 26, to vote on a proposed dock upgrade in Menemsha.

The next step for the ongoing Menemsha commercial dock replacement will be a special town meeting on Monday, Sept. 26, aiming to appropriate $44,000 in town funding.

Committees from Edgartown and Chilmark shuttled up to the state house last week and came back with nearly $300,000 in grant funding for coastal resiliency and climate change planning.

A 31-foot sailing vessel was pulled from the beach at Menemsha and refloated Thursday morning after it had run aground four days earlier.

With shipyards prohibited under the state stay-at-home order from launching boats, at least two harbors have delayed opening for the upcoming boating season.

The Martha Rose, a 77-foot sea scalloper with a rich history, had her maiden voyage this week as the newest member of the Menemsha fleet.

Two former Coast Guardsman are finalists for the Chilmark harbor master job. Ryan Rossi, 31, of West Tisbury, and Robert Decker, 33, of Oak Bluffs, were both interviewed by selectmen Tuesday night.

Chilmark voters gather for a special town meeting tonight beginning at 7:30 p.m. at the Community Center. A quorum of 25 voters is needed.

Longtime harbor master Dennis Jason will step down before the start of next summer, he told the Chilmark selectmen Tuesday.