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At their Monday meeting, the Edgartown select board received an update from the fire station building committee regarding potential rebuilding of the town’s fire station. Edgartown Fire Chief Alex Schaeffer said the building committee has been working since June to identify and review deficiencies in the existing building, which had been highlighted in a 2019 […]
Karen Lothrop, the sole Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) firefighter on-Island to tend to the Manuel Correllus State Forest, has moved on, and Vineyard fire chiefs aren’t happy state officials don’t have a replacement. As has happened in the past, the Vineyard fire chiefs say they have been left to safeguard the forest […]
Some of the asylum seekers duped into boarding airplanes that eventually landed at Martha’s Vineyard Airport suffered injuries on the long journey to and over the U.S. border with Mexico. One man was reportedly tortured along the way. Sergio Racig, an immigrant from South America who has gained his U.S. citizenship, volunteered at St. Andrews […]
At a remembrance ceremony honoring the lives lost in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the Word Trade Center and the Pentagon, members of the Edgartown Fire Department gathered at Memorial Wharf early Sunday morning. Engine truck bells rang, as the American flag was raised and then lowered to half staff, followed by a moment […]