In a recent Aquinnah select board meeting, town officials raised the alarm about an outbreak of Japanese knotweed near a town water tank, hindering access to the tank and even potentially compromising the structure.

West Tisbury affordable housing committee chair Jefrey DuBard pitched a town meeting article that would require affordable housing committee appointees on each town’s land bank advisory committee.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank is tightening its pet policy after eight land bank goats were injured in recent dog attacks.

The approval of a new awning for the Land Bank Goats comes after a meeting last month between land bank staff, the Agricultural Society and Island animal control officers on the wellbeing of the herd.

Questions about the wellbeing of the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank goat herd were raised at a meeting this week between land bank staff, Island animal control officers and the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank commission voted Monday to accept Edgartown’s offer to buy the land bank’s old headquarters on Upper Main Street for $1.55 million.

Representatives from the town of Edgartown and the Dukes County Commission made pitches to take over ownership of the former Land Bank headquarters in Edgartown.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank commission is now rethinking how to handle the sale of its office building in Edgartown.

The 336-acre Aquinnah property composed of land from the former Red Gate Farm will not open to the public as planned this summer, after a longer-than-expected period of state review.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank commission voted to award two new agricultural leases on Monday, putting active farmers back on the land at Quenomica Preserve North and at Tea Lane Farm.