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An illegal sewer connection at a Beach Road property overwhelmed a nearby town-owned pump station during last Thursday’s intense rainfall, causing hundreds of gallons of sewage to be discharged into the Vineyard Haven harbor.
A bumper crop of kindergarteners is headed for the Chilmark School in 2022, and principal Susan Stevens is looking for space to accommodate them all.
A national coalition of fishing organizations and fishermen is asking a federal appeals court to review the federal government’s approval of Vineyard Wind 1.
Plans to convert the regional high school's main athletic field to artificial turf, narrowly approved by the Martha's Vineyard Commission last month, are under scrutiny by the Oak Bluffs planning board.
Committees from Edgartown and Chilmark shuttled up to the state house last week and came back with nearly $300,000 in grant funding for coastal resiliency and climate change planning.
With an August spike in the rearview mirror, cases of Covid-19 on Martha’s Vineyard declined for the third week in a row and vaccination rates continued to inch higher, according to weekly virus reports.