Government
Edgartown officials are moving forward on a plan to reorganize the town cemetery department, including shifting cemetery maintenance to the highway department.
For the second time in less than two years, the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank broke a new record for fees last week, collecting $1.12 million in a single five-day period.
A plan by the Tisbury selectmen to incorporate state maps into the town waterways regulations could extend no-anchor zones to protect fragile eelgrass beds in Lake Tashmoo.
Cheryl Andrews-Maltais will return for a third term as chairman of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah).
The unfinished commercial building in Edgartown will return to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission for review.
Following a sometimes turbulent public review, the commission voted 11-2 Thursday night to deny the Oak Bluffs water district’s plan to build a solar array near the state forest.
