House parties are a regular feature of the summer season on Martha’s Vineyard, but a dispute in Edgartown over the use of a home in a residential neighborhood has spurred a new look at the sometimes blurry line between commercial and non-commercial activities.
The Native Land Conservancy purchased the iconic cliffside restaurant and the surrounding land this week. It will hold the property until the Aquinnah Land Initiative, a new Wampanoag nonprofit, can raise funds to buy the property.
In a select board meeting Monday, neighbors lashed out against a property dubbed the Uncle Nearest House, claiming that the house’s frequent parties violate the residential area’s zoning laws.
The hospital has seen 43 patients with Covid in the past month, chief nursing operations officer Claire Seguin said, three of which have been hospitalized.
Radu-George Radoi, of Romania, was arrested around 6:45 a.m. Sunday and has been charged with defacing property, resisting arrest, assault, threat to commit a crime and two counts of breaking and entering.
Eversource says it is proposing to build the new electric cable, as well as replace one of the existing ones, in order to deliver reliable and safe electricity.
Emilie Townes recently celebrated her retirement as dean of Vanderbilt University’s Divinity School of with a four-day series of events on the Vineyard, culminating with a Womanist Wisdom Panel at Union Chapel.
