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Aquinnah, Community Baptist Church of Gay Head in Aquinnah: Christmas Eve candlelight service, 5 p.m. Call 508-693-1539. Chilmark, Chilmark Community Church at 9 Menemsha Crossroad: Christmas Eve, 5 p.m. Call 508-645-3100. Edgartown, Faith Community Church (reformed and evangelical) 316 Meetinghouse Way off Herring Creek (Katama): Christmas Eve, 5:30 p.m. Call 508-627-4421.
Grief counseling was available in all Vineyard public schools Monday, three days after the elementary school shooting tragedy in Newtown, Conn., th
After nearly a year of discussions, the Chilmark planning board will hold the first public hearing Monday night on a proposed bylaw to regulate house size.
The draft bylaw calls for two thresholds of regulation. Residential building projects between 3,500 and 5,500 square feet per first acre would require special permits from the zoning board of appeals. Total construction would be capped at 5,500 square feet per first acre.
The Martha’s Vineyard Commission Thursday approved changes to a 22-year-old decision regarding a Chappaquiddick subdivision, removing an obstacle to possible relocation of the Schifter house.
In 1990, the MVC approved O. Stevens Leland Jr. and Timothy Leland’s application to divide a 27-acre parcel of land adjacent to Poucha Pond into a four-lot subdivision.
One lot was deeded to O. Stevens Leland, who built a house there in 2001.
A soft buzz of 250,000 watts of energy echoed off of Watcha Path in Edgartown on Thursday afternoon.
“Listen to that hum,” Bill Bennett told a group of Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School students standing next to several transformers at Mr. Bennett’s new solar array.
Plans are underway to relocate a large house on Wasque Point that is threatened by a rapidly eroding shoreline.
The bluff on Richard and Jennifer Schifter’s Chappaquiddick property has been eroding at a rate that coastal geologists call alarming and unprecedented. Despite emergency measures to stanch the damage, the ocean is coming ever closer to the Schifters’ 8,800-square-foot house.