Chilmarkers gathered for the town fire department’s annual Backyard Bash Thursday, a barbecue fundraiser that raises money for sick and injured firefighters, high school scholarships and more.
A public outcry in support of the Island’s homeless community followed the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR)’s decision to clear three homeless encampments in the state forest last week.
Last week, Elizabeth Whelan of Chappaquiddick stood alongside President Joe Biden as he announced that after five years her brother Paul Whelan was finally coming home, part of a sweeping prisoner exchange.
Experts predict that with ocean temperatures at record highs and the global climate shifting into a hazardous La Niña pattern this year, the result could be one of the worst hurricane seasons on record.
Ten years ago, two donors and their local contacts had an idea. They wanted to set the Island’s next generation up for success, while dispensing with the high organizational costs of most nonprofits.
Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine and brother to Island artist Elizabeth Whelan, has been released from Russian custody more than five years after an arrest that the U.S. government condemned as spurious.
A new support group on the Island hopes to offer community and medical support to the growing population of Islanders diagnosed with alpha-gal syndrome, a tick-borne allergy that leaves people unable to digest red meat.
Pipefish, stripers, hermit crabs, minnows, even pufferfish: Bodhi Favreau, 8, of Easton, had seen all these before. But on Sunday at State Beach, he he discovered a rare and magical ocean denizen: Hippocampus erectus, a lined seahorse.
The Tarpaulin Cove Lighthouse is up for transfer, and the U.S. Coast Guard hopes to permanently sign care of the lighthouse to a government agency or nonprofit that will preserve the Naushon island landmark for generations to come.
