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Select board members in West Tisbury are considering reducing the size of the quorum needed for town meetings. West Tisbury town administrator Jennifer Rand proposed a warrant article to change the current quorum from five percent of registered voters to simply 75 registered voters during a meeting Wednesday, Jan. 24. Rand said the annual town […]
To the Editor: The Gay Head 10K Committee would like to thank everyone who helped to make the ninth annual Gay Head 10K, a Race for the Light, another success. The race would not have been possible without our generous and supportive sponsors: […]
You may have seen him atop a retro fire truck riding down Main Street in Edgartown, or at an Island library with frenetic children bouncing on his lap caterwauling Christmas wishes. Wherever you see Santa Claus this holiday season, you can be sure his clothes will be tarnished with ashes and soot from spreading cheer […]
The Martha's Vineyard Times Three vehicle crash in West Tisbury Updated 3pm Three vehicles were involved in a crash at the intersection of State Road, Panhandle Road, and Scotsman’s Bridge Lane in West Tisbury at around 11:30 am Monday. There were two cars and a white pickup truck involved. Airbags appeared deployed in two of the three vehicles. State Road is down to one lane, Scotsman’s Bridge was closed on the State Road end, and Panhandle remained open. What appears to have happened, according to West Tisbury Police Sgt. Garrison Vieira, is a black Subaru failed to yield to...
Chilmark selectmen put the brakes on a preliminary plan to build a shared-use bike path on North Road, amid a sea of criticism from town residents Tuesday. The outpouring of disapproval came at the selectmen’s meeting, after a letter recently went out to frontage property owners on the rural road sketching the preliminary concept for the path. Drafted by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission and brought before the West Tisbury and Chilmark planning boards in September, the preliminary plan calls for creating a shared walking and cycling path along the six-mile bucolic road that runs from State...