Noah Asimow
A trio of mainstay Menemsha businesses have been shuttered for close to two years with no official opening days in sight, prompting questions from selectmen this week.

2025

A proposal from the Chilmark conservation commission to change its wetland protection regulations won’t make the annual town meeting warrant after the select board raised concerns last week. 

Matthew Poole was the lone candidate to pull nomination papers for the April 30 town election.

The Chilmark select board denied a request by the Chilmark Preschool for a conditional approval to “break ground” on a new school while it finalizes its plans.

Chilmark select board chair James Malkin will have been a select board member for three terms by the time he steps down in April.

2024

The meal tax would charge an excise of .75 per cent on the sale of meals at restaurants in town, adding onto the existing 6.25 per cent state sales tax.

Chilmark may be poised to send out a request for proposals to construct an affordable housing complex off Pasture Road six years after the idea was first hatched. 

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