The Vineyard’s only homelessness prevention nonprofit is under agreement to buy 112 Dukes County avenue, where — if local and regional authorities approve — it plans to build a permanent winter shelter for up to 25 guests.
Martha’s Vineyard Boys and Girls Club executive director Dhakir Warren is headed back to his former workplace, Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, where he previously led the guidance and counseling staff before taking the club job in 2021.
The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School committee voted 7-1 Monday to allow the continued development of a new policy preventing nearly all student use of mobile phones during the school day.
The Marthas’s Vineyard Commission week opened a hearing last week on Chilmark landowner Susan Eddy’s plans to subdivide her Welles Way property for family use.
The Steamship Authority board of governors voted this week to tie upcoming salary increases for its 100 or so non-union staffers to the weighted average of pay raises for unionized workers.
Less than a month after a fire sent contaminated smoke billowing throughout the Havenside elderly housing complex in Vineyard Haven, nearly all of the displaced residents have returned — though most of their belongings are gone forever.
After 48 years with the Steamship Authority, port captain Charles Monteiro has retired. Assistant port captain Paul Hennessey took over the role this week.
Vineyard Lands for Our Community, a fledgling nonprofit, filed plans this week with the Tisbury conservation commission for a sweeping new development, kicking off a lengthy permitting process for the multi-million dollar project.
