The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank purchased a 10.7-acre parcel on North Neck Road on Chappaquiddick for $1.5 million last month and hopes to open the property next week.
The Island’s mounting tick-borne illness epidemic was highlighted by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last week, as he announced new federal initiatives to combat Lyme disease and alpha-gal syndrome.
Lagoon Pond's deterioration in recent years is concerning to its stewards, who see it as part of a complex web of interrelated phenomena both above and below the waterline that put the pond’s health in jeopardy.
The cast of the hit Bravo reality series has been on Island this week filming an episode that takes place on a Vineyard vacation, utilizing locations in Oak Bluffs and Edgartown.
More than 100 protesters gathered at Menemsha Beach Saturday to call for the immediate release of Rogerio da Silva Lima and his son Nycolas de Al Varenga Lima, 15, who were detained while fishing off the up-Island port Monday.
With cash buyers entering the Island property market at an above-average rate, industry experts say it’s both a symptom of rising prices and a major force behind it.
Last Tuesday, the select board voted to increase the amount the town charges the Rhode Island Fast Ferry, the Patriot Boat and the Island Queen to operate in and out of the town’s harbor this summer.
On Saturday morning, the Oak Bluffs select board unanimously voted to appoint current acting town administrator and former assistant town administrator Wendy Brough to the full-time role.
The new crosswalk signals and concrete platforms that have been catching eyes on the Island’s main roads are part of a state effort to make Vineyard streets safer.
