Vineyard Chapter News Today

The African American Heritage Trail of Martha’s Vineyard (AAHTMV) unveiled a new site along its trail on Wednesday, honoring an old business in Oak Bluffs.  The site is the first of AAHTMV’s Black Business Trail, which will include both historical and contemporary examples of Black enterprise in Oak Bluffs and Vineyard Haven.  The African American […]

The parents of an 8-year-old Black child who had a tent strap wrapped around his neck by two white children at a Chilmark Community Center summer camp reached a $45,000 settlement agreement with the Chilmark Town Affairs Council, one day after filing a lawsuit. A complaint filed on Monday in Dukes County Superior Court identifies […]

The Chilmark Town Affairs Council (CTAC) presented a plan geared toward preventing an incident similar to the one in July during a camp offered at Chilmark Community Center where two white campers put a tent strap around the neck of a Black camper. During a Chilmark select board meeting Tuesday that attracted more than 60 […]

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission continued a public hearing for the renovation and expansion project at the historic Inn at Shearer Cottage in Oak Bluffs. The properties include two buildings: a main two-story cottage with three bedrooms, and a separate one-story building with three rooms. The project proposes to increase the Shearer Cottage from six to […]

A report from the Chilmark Town Affairs Council (CTAC), the body that governs a summer camp at the Chilmark Community Center where two white boys are accused of wrapping a tent strap around the neck of a Black boy, didn’t find any clear evidence racism was at play.  “Based on the interviews we have conducted […]

The Marthas Vineyard Times Island police implicit bias training set for May Training will be led by Chicago-based Hillard Heintze. An implicit and unconscious bias training course for Island police is set to take place in May. Members of the Island’s six police departments will engage in an implicit and unconscious bias training May 4, 5, and 6. The training will be conducted on-Island by Hillard Heintze, a security risk management team based in Chicago. Originally scheduled for N...