Faced with sharply reduced federal funding for outreach efforts, Island leaders and organizations on Martha’s Vineyard are scrambling to prepare for the 2020 census.
Selectmen voted Friday to sign a memorandum of understanding with the Boys and Girls Club related to the planned purchase of 21 acres off the Edgartown-West Tisbury Road.
It starts quietly. A few flannel-clad regulars sitting at the bar, sipping on whatever suits their fancy, which, despite it being called the Ritz, is never fancy.
Five years later, the nonprofit’s new campus in Vineyard Haven is not only a centralized sober living facility, but a gathering place for the recovery community, too.
Prolonged permitting delays by the Trump administration have thrown Vineyard Wind’s $2.8 billion wind farm south of Martha’s Vineyard further into flux.