About 50 Tisbury and Island residents gathered at the town’s senior center late Thursday afternoon to express their thoughts on the Beach Road Weekend, a three-day music festival held in August. Unlike the praise-fest festival promoter Adam Epstein enjoyed at an October select board meeting when business leaders and concert goers provided feedback to the […]
On Friday night at about 11 pm, part of Five Corners was partially closed to traffic as shipwrights and volunteers, under Capt. Bob Douglas’ observation, moved the old Cornish vessel, Raider. An owner of many storied wooden vessels, Douglas had kept Raider preserved for decades in his Vineyard Haven warehouse. Crew from nearby Gannon & […]
A parking lot has emerged at the site of the old Golden Dragon restaurant. The building that only recently stood on a lot immediately adjacent to Shop & Shop’s Vineyard Haven store was determined to be unsafe by the Town of Tisbury and was placed under a “removed or make safe” order in June. Stop […]
Town and construction officials gathered in front of the skeleton of Chilmark’s new fire station Wednesday morning for a tree and flag topping ceremony. Chilmark Fire Lt. Vitor Silva mounted a holly tree and a U.S. flag atop the station, climbing an Edgartown fire tower to do so. Chilmark has no fire tower. In an […]
Edgartown police and firefighters responded to a report of a vehicle that struck a support pole outside the Dip 02539 at the Great Harbor Triangle Wednesday afternoon. There were no injuries and the preliminary investigation indicates that the driver of the Volkswagen Jetta, who was not immediately identified, pressed the gas instead of the brake […]