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Thousands of daffodils are coming to the Vineyard on Tuesday, as part of an annual fund-raiser for the American Cancer Society.
Boxes containing 11,000 flowers will arrive Tuesday morning at 10:15 a.m. on the ferry. A team of core volunteers will meet at the Steamship Authority in Vineyard Haven to collect and then distribute the budding flowers.
The Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation has purchased a new property on Chappaquiddick, the conservation foundation announced this week.
The 2.3-acre parcel sits on Manaca Hill, near Chappy Point. Viewed from the Edgartown side of the Chappaquiddick ferry, it is located on the right side of the small island, across the street from the Chappy Beach Club, and abuts the town-owned Gardner property.
Sheriff’s Meadow Executive Director Adam Moore said this week that the foundation purchased the property on Dec. 19 from Virginia Mattern for $100,000.
The Martha’s Vineyard Airport staged a mass casualty incident drill on Sunday, simulating a large aircraft crash on the Island. Emergency responders from all Island towns participated in the training exercise, which involved assessing and treating crash victims, transporting them to the hospital and extinguishing fires.
By REMY TUMIN
Deferred maintenance on town roads in West Tisbury has created a potentially large bill for town taxpayers this year, and voters will be asked to approve close to $3 million to repair stretches of nearly every town road.
A civil trial stemming from a 2005 plane crash at Katama Airfield began this week, with jurors hearing emotional testimony from one of the survivors, venturing to the airfield to examine the plane’s wreckage and pondering technical evidence about key parts of the plane at the center of the case.
The Chilmark Planning board this week debated requiring special permits in order to build large houses — the latest movement in a series of efforts to curb the development of so-called McMansions on Island.
At a meeting with members of the Martha’s Vineyard Commission on Monday, Chilmark planning board members considered issuing special permits for homes that exceed a certain size. Doing so would allow the planning board to review, and potentially reject, certain large-scale homes.