Chip Vanderhoop News Today

Last Tuesday, coming back from our once-a-week down-Island errands, Charley and I stopped at Alley’s for an ice cream sandwich, and then strolled across the street to the parking lot outside Howes House. That’s where IGI’s Mobile Market gets parked every Tuesday from 3 to 5 pm. Stopping at the Mobile Market table, we loaded […]

At Tuesday’s Aquinnah Select Board meeting, town harbormaster and shellfish warden Chip Vanderhoop encouraged the hunting of Canada geese at Menemsha Pond to ease shellfishing closures.  Most of the pond’s shellfishing has been closed this summer due to coliform bacteria levels, contributed to by the resident goose population in the pond’s northwestern corner and parts […]

Bay scallops are facing a huge challenge in Menemsha Pond. Speaking about the state of the pond’s shellfish fishing industry with Juli Vanderhoop — Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head elder, Aquinnah select board member, shell fisherman, and business owner — was sobering. Vanderhoop shares, “As a child, I remember many people of this community scalloping […]

Former four-term Chilmark select board member Frank Fenner, an owner of the Galley in Menemsha, told the Chilmark select board, both in a letter and via Zoom, that repairs to Boathouse Road are ripe for child rock-throwing opportunities.  Harbormaster Ryan Rossi said that following an agreement between Chilmark and Aquinnah for maintenance of Boathouse Road, […]