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On Halloween night, William street in Vineyard Haven will once again be a haven for goblins and ghouls of all sizes. From 6 to 9 p.m. the street will be blocked off for cars, beginning at Franklin street and extending to Woodlawn street.
Main street will be accessible to cars but Centre and Church streets and Colonial Lane will be blocked off.
For those who haven’t been to William street on Halloween, the trip is well worth it. Some even call it the Times Square of Vineyard Halloween.
The Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School 2012 Scarecrow Festival has arrived and more than 75 scarecrows are now living on the Island. The festival is a fundraiser for the school as each Island business that participates makes a donation to the school in return for a homemade scarecrow. The scarecrows stay up until Nov. 1. Visit mvpcs.org to take the grand scarecrow tour.
On Saturday, Oct. 27, Connect will hold its fifth annual domestic and sexual violence awareness walk. The walk begins at the Edgartown Park and Ride and continues for approximately two miles through Edgartown, along the “parade route.”
Registration for the event begins at 10 a.m. and the walk begins at 10:30 a.m.
With the failure of a previous plan to try to stem the erosion that threatens a Chappaquiddick house and a severe tropical storm headed up the East
The Tisbury department of public works last week unveiled an ambitious plan to build a public walkway along a both sides of a section of Beach Road spanning the town harbor and the Lagoon Pond.
At a joint meeting with the planning board and the DPW, architect James Weisman of Terrain Associates Architects, presented a conceptual draft for a harbor walk.
Steamship Authority governors this week approved an operating budget for the coming year that includes slight fare increases for automobiles to and from the Vineyard.
Meeting Tuesday in Woods Hole, the board approved a budget with operating expenses of more than $83 million, a 4.1 per cent increase over estimated total operating costs for 2012.