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Chilmark is considering how to make Menemsha safer for pedestrians. Various Chilmark town bodies and Menemsha stakeholders held a joint meeting to review the end of the summer season at the popular tourist destination and busy waterfront. “Should there be any actions necessary from this meeting, later the select board will meet with the harbormaster […]
The Menemsha restaurant Homeport has been ordered to halt work on its property because its owner failed to get a building permit before starting construction. The restaurant had been building a pergola, but the application still needs to come before the zoning board of appeals aside from getting the permit. A stop order has been […]
A detailed report by Childs Engineering found a number of slow burning problems with the commercial wharf in Menemsha and one urgent problem in the southeast corner of the structure near the Charter Dock. Some of the structural elements in that section are under-built and under threat of fungal decay, Harbormaster Ryan Rossi told the […]
Chilmark’s select board voted unanimously Tuesday night to authorize a committee charged with exploring security camera options for Menemsha’s West Dock. Committee members will be selected by Chilmark harbormaster Ryan Rossi and select board member Warren Doty. Select board chair Jim Malkin urged Doty and Rossi to tap “no more than seven” committee members. The […]
After repeatedly denouncing a 30-foot-tall camera tower on Menemsha’s West Dock Tuesday night, Chilmark’s harbor advisory and parks and recreation committees voted to halt security camera installation on the West Dock until the project can be studied further, and to support security camera installation on the east side of the harbor. The committee votes amounted […]