Chilmark News

Bryant K. Brown, 33, of Boston was arraigned this morning on attempted murder, kidnapping, aggravated rape 3 counts, indecent assault and battery on a disabled person over 14, assault with intent to rape and threats to commit a crime-murder. He was held on $300,000 bail.

The Day That Will Live In Infamy had already come and gone, to whit, December 7 th , 1941, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the event was, well, infamous.

The resurgent Chilmark harbor advisory committee met Tuesday with selectmen to sort some things out - chief among them a proposal by a well-known lobster fisherman to run charter dinner cruises out of Menemsha Harbor.

Although Oak Bluffs emergency management director Peter Martell attended an organizational meeting of the Island's newly formed Regional Emergency Planning Committee Tuesday, he made it clear he wants no part of the regional effort.

The Island of Martha's Vineyard is known worldwide for its beaches. There are some that boast peaceful coves and others that have fantastic surf.

By now Island rental agents have put down their phones, turned their computers to the wall, and have booked up every last available house for the 4th of July weekend, and, in fact, the whole week itself.

The home that the Obamas rented while on vacation here just before he launched his presidential campaign, is now for sale for $3.295 million reported the Boston Herald .

On Saturday, May 12, Zachary Robert Coutinho graduated from Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, New Hampshire.

I suspect quite a few islanders, heading into Oak Bluffs on New York Avenue, nearly ran off the road when the blazing blue plants trailing over the retaining wall came into view.

According to the Vineyard Gazette , at this week's board of selectmen meeting in Chilmark, the selectmen voted to approve an appeal letter drafted by town counsel Ron Rappaport.

Last week's vote in Aquinnah brought the total number of Islanders who voted on the nonbinding referendum roundabout question to 2,558. While a strong showing of yeas were raised in support of the roundabout at the Oak Bluffs town meeting there was quite a different result in the rest of the towns.

West Tisbury Police plan to seek charges against the operator of a 2001 Grand Cherokee following a single car accident Sunday afternoon in the West Tisbury business district.

Stillman has made a career out of droll comedies about earnest youths given to spouting absurdities while wrestling with romance and what to do with their lives.

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With the approach of summer many are wondering whether the Obama's would return to the Island for another vacation.

Who thought it would ever happen? The tried and true, stand-up-to-the weather, functional fixture at Bliss Pond Farm has been replaced.

After months and months of hard work and determination, the renovation of the kitchen at the West Tisbury School has been approved.

Aquinnah voters moved quickly through their annual town meeting on Tuesday, among other things approving a $3.4 million budget for fiscal year 2013 as well as a three percent cost of living adjustment for town and a 16 percent raise for the town administrator.

The Tea Lane farmhouse off Middle Road in Chilmark, which was built more than 250 years ago and has been without a year-round tenant for several years, will have a new resident farmer this summer.

Chilmark selectmen, in a joint meeting Tuesday, May 1, with the Martha's Vineyard Land Bank's town advisory board , interviewed the three finalists who want to be the resident farmer at the Tea Lane farmstead.