MVYouth awarded a $1 million grant to the Martha’s Vineyard Boys & Girls Club during a ceremony held Wednesday evening at the Edgartown library. The funding will help the Boys and Girls Club (MVBGC) construct a new, 25,000 square-foot facility on land purchased from the Norton family, abutting the Club’s current location near the Edgartown […]
An Edgartown renovation project that sparked controversy will be moving forward. During a meeting held on Thursday, August 3, the Edgartown Historic District Commission voted to approve renovations at 81 South Water St. Thursday’s vote was not unanimous: Two commissioners, Julia Tarka and James Cisek, voted against approving the project. A pool originally proposed for […]
The proposed project for 81 South Water Street that lit controversy in Edgartown earlier this year seems likely to be approved by the Edgartown Historic District Commission after new plans were presented this week. The commission unanimously voted to continue meeting about 81 South Water Street during a public hearing on Thursday, July 6. Although […]
The architect with the controversial renovation of 81 South Water Street, which would be a residence of investor David Malm, is still finalizing plans for the project. On Thursday, the Edgartown Historic District Commission unanimously voted to schedule a public hearing to review site plans. The project has caught abutters’ attention due to worries that […]
A Massachusetts-based nonprofit organized an Island-wide cleanup over the weekend, collecting what they estimated was more than a thousand pounds of trash along Martha’s Vineyard roads. Executive director Neil Rhein of the Mansfield-based Keep Massachusetts Beautiful said that about 30 volunteers came out Saturday for the first “Great Martha’s Vineyard Cleanup” and collected approximately 35 […]