Squibnocket Beach News Today

On New Year’s Day, the Beach BeFrienders cleared more than 640 pounds of trash from Lobsterville Beach in Aquinnah.  Dubbed the “First Day Lobsterville Sweep,” Beach BeFrienders organizer Laurisa Rich said the beach cleanup attracted over 100 Islanders to the up-Island beach.  “It was so well attended they also flaked out to Red Beach, Ox […]

Last week’s powerful storm that struck the Island, eroding a number of south-facing beaches, also washed up a lot of trash and debris.  And Island environmentalists, during a cleanup on a breezy winter solstice Dec. 21, gathered at Squibnocket Beach and removed more than 300 pounds of lighters, fishing equipment, plastic bottles, and other debris.  […]

The best way to avoid bickering on a family vacation? Own a beach home with enough space for everyone like this one in Chilmark.

Chilmark’s select board learned Tuesday night that a local resident has offered to pay to replenish “renourish” sand at Squibnocket Beach through a project that would be run by the Woods Hole Group. Tara Marden, a senior project manager and coastal geologist at the Woods Hole Group, pitched the idea to the board.  “I was […]

Chilmark’s select board voted unanimously Tuesday night to hold a special town meeting on Sept. 26 at 7 pm. The sole business of the meeting will be to secure $44,000 in funding for Phase II of the town’s commercial wharf project in Menemsha. That project is geared toward replacing about 700 feet of dock and […]

An individual from the FV Susan Rose went missing early Friday morning as the vessel was passing near Nomans Land en route to New Bedford. The Coast Guard received a call about the missing fisherman at 1:39 am, according to Petty Officer Ryan Noel, a spokesperson for the Coast Guard’s First District. Noel said the […]

The state inventoried public access to beaches in 1990 — and has never tried to do it again.

To the Editor: Once again I take issue with your editorial for the same thing you continue doing. Here are two quotes from the editorial. “The Island community lives on best when we’re doing what we can to support each other” and “to do what’s best for the common good.” Total poppycock, because you disregard […]

Town administrator Tim Carroll informed the Chilmark select board Tuesday night the town was estimated to have $800,000 in free cash for fiscal ’22. Select board member Warren Doty asked if the free cash, which is the town’s remaining unrestricted funds from the previous fiscal year, had been certified yet. Carroll said it hadn’t been. […]

To the Editor: I went to the West Tisbury town meeting, held in the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs, graciously donated by the Campground, a private organization, for free. I heard both sides of the affordable housing debate. It was one side talking about “the rural nature of the town” against “we are a community that […]