The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank announced Monday that it has added to its beachfront holdings in Vineyard Haven with the purchase of a small property on the Tashmoo peninsula.
Unpermitted trail clearing in the state forest has led to a citation from state environmental officials for violations of the Massachusetts Endangered Species Act.
Past and present Steamship Authority managers and board members warmly recalled the contributions of the former long-serving Barnstable boat line governor who died last month.
The family-owned office and art supply store that has been an anchor business at the head of Main street Vineyard Haven for the past four decades will permanently close its retail store.
Expressions of sympathy were coming in from all corners of the Island Monday for the family of Adam Friedman, the West Tisbury man who was found dead Saturday.
The fields are still fallow, the silos completely gone to ruin. Operating licenses and permits have long since expired, and nearly a year after the Edgartown Conservation Commission announced it had agreed in principal to lease Katama Farm to entrepreneur David Moore there still is no lease.
And no farming operation at the 190-acre, town-owned farm on the vast, windswept Katama Plains which for years supported an active dairy operation.
The former longtime West Tisbury selectman, Island builder and community activist, died Friday night. He was 74 and had battled Parkinson’s disease for many years.
