Chilmark’s select board voted unanimously Tuesday night to make what turned out to be a celebrity exception to a waterways regulation governing the number of slip holders in a household. Specifically, the board permitted charter boat operator Capt. Jen Clarke to retain her boat slip on the Charter Dock, and her husband Lenny Clarke, after […]
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 […]
Tuesday evening, the Chilmark select board learned a private donor was willing to fund repairs to the West Dock. “The harbormaster received an offer from two harbor users to donate material and labor to repair an area in the West Dock where birds are nesting,” select board chair James Malkin said. Malkin went on to […]