Chilmark News

The day trippers land at Vineyard Haven but visitors say the real charms of Martha's Vineyard - an island of 87.48 square miles off the north-east coast of the US - lie in places such as Edgartown, where Paul McCartney keeps a home, with its elegant whaling captains' houses and craggy inns.

Jules Feiffer at Bunch of Grapes Saturday. A full year after the Fourth of July fire closed down Main street, Vineyard Haven, the sun, the crowds and the grand reopening of Bunch of Grapes Bookstore this weekend seemed to return a familiar summer life of leisure to the Island.

The construction of a proposed distributed antennae system could provide a regulatory bulwark against companies intent on building conventional wireless towers in West Tisbury, Chilmark, and Aquinnah, DAS proponents said at a recent meeting.

Against a backdrop of fiscal restraint in the three member up-Island towns, the Tri-Town Ambulance Committee voted, at a meeting on June 22, to distribute most of a $20,835 unused balance in the committee's incentive pay account to Emergency Medical Technicians who have served during the year.

Chilmark residents, town officials, and law enforcement officials from across the Island attended a ceremony at the Chilmark police headquarters Wednesday to install the town's new chief of police.

Ravaging of the river herring population by midwater trawlers and an absence of round-the-clock environmental police protection were the hot topics at a meeting between Cape and Islands Rep.

Writer and Director Elizabeth Villard. Widow's walks attest to them, historians tend to overlook them, and now at last, they have been given a chance to speak for themselves.

The wet weather this spring may have cost Island farmers their early hay crop, according to David Douglas, who harvests more hay than any other Vineyard farmer.

Walk through The Granary Gallery courtyard on any sunny day and find antique wrought iron tables and chairs, flowers growing everywhere, and art lining the rustic wooden outdoor walls.

Diane Gandy pays attention. In conversation, her eyes fix on the person talking, shifting only to identify sounds and movement around the lobby of the Chilmark schoolhouse where, until June 30, she is principal - head of school, in up-Island terms.

The discussion and debate at recent public hearings on a tri-town proposal to create a distributed antenna system to support up-Island cell service has focused on the pros and cons of cell phone service, possible health risks, and the visual impact of towers.

A stay of execution was granted on one of Chilmark's few remaining pre-Revolutionary houses at a well attended meeting of the historical commission Wednesday.

Chilmark town officials and residents debated heritability rules for affordable housing recipients Tuesday.

The All-Island School Committee set next year's goals for superintendent of schools James Weiss and discussed proposed school policies at its last meeting of the school year, held Monday night at Martha's Vineyard Regional High School .

So shut your eyes while Mother sings Of wonderful sights that be, And you shall see the beautiful things As you rock in the misty sea.

The Martha's Vineyard Commission is expected to vote this evening on whether to grant a permit for the town of Oak Bluffs to begin offering fuel for sale from portable tanks located near the harbormaster's shack.

Having failed once to close the books on fiscal 2009, Aquinnah tried again last night to achieve the quorum needed to convene a special town meeting .

Homeowners find bees in the house unnerving. Clouds of bees bounce off a kitchen window in Chilmark.

They came from rival Island schools in Oak Bluffs, Edgartown, and Tisbury, brought together to spend their senior year in 1959-60 as the first graduating class in the new Martha's Vineyard Regional High School .

Simplicity, seasonality and innovation reign at Chilmark Tavern , a New American at Beetlebung Corner on Marthaa s Vineyard, where chef Paul Oa Connell is whipping up locally sourced, midpriced fare in a casual setting with an open kitchen, hardwood floors, skylights and Alfred Eisenstaedt photos; N.B. ita s BYO, but fresh juices are available for ...