Community
Martha’s Vineyard Community Services is offering a seminar on special needs planning for a family member with a developmental disability on Thursday, May 30 at MVCS in the board room of building B from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Frederick M. Misilo Jr., chair of Fletcher Tilton’s Special Needs and Elder Law Practice Group, will present the seminar. The workshop will address the unique needs that families have in planning the financial and legal future of their relatives with a disability.
Chris Hathaway and Michael Sellitti Jr. stood at the ready on the slab at Up-Island Automotive this week, waiting for the next customer to pull in. The slab is home base for the gas attendants at the West Tisbury station, bouncing off the center aisle from pump to pump attending to customers.
The Dukes County Health Council Youth Task Force will expand its services into career counseling for young adults thanks to a three-year grant totaling $212,800 from the Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Foundation. The funds will be used to facilitate Project Next, which will provide support to the young adults population on Martha’s Vineyard through a variety of programs and initiatives. The project will begin with a series of focus groups and assessments as well as open office hours to provide financial and career counseling.
In a home known for fostering literary talent and housing traveling artists, conversation at the Cleaveland House has been consumed lately with talk about place settings, tablecloths, decorations and flowers. A how-to book on marrying at an older age lies on the entry table amongst works of great authors.
After concerns arose last week about noise and crowding, a leadership development conference planned for early June in Oak Bluffs will change venue
The walls came down on the old Tisbury fire station on Beach street in Vineyard Haven Wednesday morning. So did the roof.