The Martha s Vineyard Times
Updated @12:45 pm
A boiler failure has closed the Dukes County Courthouse for at least a week.
The furnace was found “cracked and leaking,” Christine Todd, chair of the Dukes County commissioners, told The Times. Todd said it “cannot be fixed.”
The dead boiler has closed the courthouse “at least until the end of this week,” Todd said.
The building has no running water because “they had to drain all the pipes,” she said.
The county building, which save for the registry of deeds portion, is leased to the commonwealth, houses the Dukes County Superior Court, the Edgartown District Court, and the Dukes County Probate and Family Court.