Maia Coleman
A divided Chilmark conservation commission voted last week to approve a project to install a new culvert in Mill Brook headwaters off North Road. Proposed by the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation, the project has kicked up a cloud of controversy.

2015

Tisbury and West Tisbury police are investigating the theft of mail from several mailboxes in the Lambert’s Cove area.

Completing a rigorous process begun more than a year ago, Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation recently won formal accreditation from the Land Trust Alliance.

Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation has received a $40,000 grant to help restore the Mill Brook at the Roth Woodlands property in Chilmark.

Supporters of the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation gathered Monday night at the Borggaard farm in West Tisbury for a gala to benefit the foundation's general fund and the organization's mission to preserve and manage natural habitats on the Island. The event raised more than $320,000.

At the end of a long dirt road in Chilmark, a huge white tent arches above the meadows at Quansoo Farm. Inside the tent is the historic Mayhew-Hancock-Mitchell House, under renovation since last year.

2014

Jesse Ausubel, director of the Program for the Human Environment at the Rockefeller University in New York city, will deliver a lecture at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown on Tuesday, July 8, at 7:30 p.m.

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