With Hurricane Lee expected to pass offshore of Martha’s Vineyard Saturday, the National Weather Service has issued a tropical storm warning for Dukes County. The storm could hit the Island with tropical storm-force winds within the next 36 hours.
Plans to renovate the Howes House in West Tisbury are on-hold indefinitely as the town select board reckons with policy violations on the Up-Island Council on Aging, the intermunicipal body headquartered there.
The resounding thwacking of a pickleball against a paddle may be silenced by municipal regulation in Chilmark, at least for now, after the town planning board moved to enact a moratorium on building new pickleball courts at their meeting on Monday.
A plume of smoke curled against the backdrop of the rolling waves on Aquinnah’s south shore this weekend, as members of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) and native peoples from across the east coast gathered for the annual Aquinnah Powwow.
A team from the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Woods Hole recently completed a Martha’s Vineyard climate risk assessment, looking at how a two-degree increase in global temperatures could impact several climatic factors on-Island.
State conservation officials have made plans to cut down a stand of pest-ridden pine trees in the northwestern section of the Manuel F. Correllus state forest, after finding an infestation of the southern pine beetle earlier this summer.
