Chilmark voters approved a change to the town line, but not before an amendment was added on the town meeting floor that will keep Aquinnah, the smallest town on the Island, from losing any more land. At stake was 300 feet.

Featherstone Center for the Arts hosts its fifth annual Garden Party and Fashion Show at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 10. Sip sparkling lemonade while taking in designs by Lorraine Parish, Bananas, Once In a Blue Moon and more.

Chilmark voters have spoken, voting by a slim margin at the annual town meeting Monday to send the town back to the drawing board on the restoration project for Squibnocket Beach.

Earlier this week a man walking down the street announced, “If it snows, I quit.” What he would quit was not entirely clear, but his sentiment was written all over his body — hands tucked deeply into his pockets, jacket collar turned up and a thick hat pulled down on his head.

When I was a young boy growing up in Chilmark, this was the time of year when my friends and I would spend most of our days fishing the brooks and ponds for native brook trout.

From the Vineyard Gazette edition of May 6, 1977: The first woman to be elected selectman in Chilmark remembers being the sixth Democrat to register in the town.

Again, Gail Barmakian, a long-serving and devoted member of the Oak Bluffs selectmen, was overlooked to fill the seat as chairman.

With public sentiment running high on both sides of the issue, the Martha’s Vineyard Commission convenes a public hearing in Tisbury tonight on the Stop & Shop expansion plan.

The meeting begins at 6 p.m. in the Tisbury senior center.

Dear Carl: I am the woman you rescued two weeks ago Thursday on the uphill part of Main street in Vineyard Haven as a cyclonic wind knocked me down.

The following letter was sent to the Army Corps of Engineers; the author is chairman of the Chilmark selectmen.