The Chilmark select board welcomed West Tisbury select board members at their meeting Tuesday, to discuss the future of the Howes House in West Tisbury. Howes House, home to the Up-Island Council on Aging, is located in West Tisbury, but it also serves Chilmark and Aquinnah seniors. All three towns contribute to the costs for […]
The West Tisbury Select Board has decided to move forward with a lawsuit following the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection’s investigation into per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances the class of chemicals known as PFAS. The lawsuit is being spearheaded by the state attorney general’s office, against the manufacturers of the firefighting foam used by the […]
At its Wednesday meeting, the West Tisbury select board approved a recommendation from the town’s financial management team to introduce a warrant article at the annual town meeting which would allocate the entirety of West Tisbury’s American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) money to the renovation of the Howes House. Following numerous discussions regarding what to […]
West Tisbury health agent Omar Johnson will be retiring, select board chair Cynthia Mitchell revealed during a Wednesday, Jan. 11 select board meeting. Johnson has been with the town for, as he describes it, “six wonderful years.” Three of those years were during the height of the COVID pandemic when health agents and health institutions […]