Harbor Homes of Martha’s Vineyard has received a multi-year grant from the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development for its seasonal emergency homeless shelter. The nonprofit will be receiving the funds beginning in the fall of 2023. The $257,488 grant will be renewed annually “for a total contract duration” of 10 years and three […]
Additional Florida officials, including the woman who persuaded migrants to board a plane to Martha’s Vineyard, have been added as defendants in the complaint against parties responsible for luring nearly 50 Venezuelan/Peruvian migrants onto planes headed to the Island Sept. 14. The class action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Boston by Chicago-based […]
We doubt the homeless problem on Martha’s Vineyard is going away anytime soon. The lack of affordable housing and rental apartments has been well-documented in recent years, and even with a Housing Bank, this problem is unlikely to get solved in the near future. During the early stages of the pandemic, real estate on the […]
Slough Farm in Edgartown was created as a nonprofit educational farm and gathering space in 2017. The majority of the food raised and grown on the farm goes to Island Grown Initiative (IGI), and to support food equity programs on the Island. It also donates a large amount of its meat and produce to Island […]