Maia Coleman
A juvenile gray seal entangled in fishing line and rope on the shore of East Beach on Chappaquiddick was rescued Monday by a team of rangers and natural resources officers. The pup swam free after the entanglements were cut away.
Julia Wells
Oversand vehicle trails on Chappaquiddick have been partly reopened after a weekend of closures to protect nesting piping plovers, the Trustees of Reservations announced. All trails to Cape Pogue remain closed to vehicles.
Noah Asimow
Sam Hart, Islands regional director at the Trustees of Reservations, will leave his position to start a new job at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.
Kate Dario
The second annual State of the Coast report released last week by The Trustees of Reservations paints a stark picture of the future for Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket and Gosnold.

2025

The Trustees of Reservations is allowing free admission to its Vineyard beaches for walkers and bicyclists this summer and plans to have free vehicle passes available at the Island libraries.

2024

More than 30 years after first issuing a special permit that has since proved elusive, the Edgartown planning board and The Trustees of Reservations came together last week to seek a way forward. 

A plan to re-route a portion of an oversand vehicle trail on Chappaquiddick is being challenged by a group of landowners, which believes more study should have gone into the proposal. 

The Trustees of Reservations and the Edgartown zoning board told the state they wanted to pause their ongoing lawsuit after working out a course of action for the Trustees to file an application with the town. 

Lawsuits and legal appeals continue to stack up in the battle over oversand vehicle trails on Chappaquiddick.

The nonprofit, which oversees miles of oversand vehicle trails on Chappaquiddick, is proposing to retire about 1,300 feet of trail along the bayside of Cape Pogue because it now regularly becomes inundated by Cape Pogue Bay. 

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