Vital counseling for Island veterans will continue at Martha’s Vineyard Community Services, funded by donors who have contributed enough to keep the program going after its federal contract ends on June 30.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs recently chose not to renew a contract with Martha’s Vineyard Community Services for veterans counseling. But newly-appointed community services chief executive officer Dean Teague said on Thursday that the program will continue.
A veteran housing project planned for Bellevue avenue in Oak Bluffs could break ground by next May after getting approval from the town’s zoning board of appeals this week.
The Martha’s Vineyard Commission this week declined to send a proposed Oak Bluffs veteran affordable housing complex to a full public hearing, helping fast track the project in its attempts to get funding.
On Sunday, Nov. 12, the Martha's Vineyard Film Society will screen Mending the Line in honor of Veterans Day and as a fundraiser for new affordable housing for Island veterans.
Island veterans gathered with friends and family Thursday evening to celebrate the ongoing development of the Vineyard’s first-ever veterans affordable housing complex, which is on track to begin construction in early 2024.
The perpetually vibrant linguist, library trustee and World War II veteran who trained his beaming smile on everyone he knew and met, died Friday night at his home in Edgartown.
