North Road is beautiful, and the Jenkinsons’ daffodils on the hillside below their home and around the old gas pump are peaking.
Congratulations to Mike Broderick and Mary McConneloug, members of the U.S. Cycling Team, on their strong performances in Nevados de Chillán, Chile, at the March Masters Mountain Bike World Championships. Mary won first place in Cross-County.
Chilmark was busy on Easter Sunday: Church services were held at sunrise in the Menemsha parking lot, and at 9 in the sanctuary, followed by a hunt for candy-filled eggs.
A little later, the Chilmark Fire Department hosted an Easter egg hunt at the Community Center.
Menemsha Fish Market was busy.
Our annual town meeting is scheduled for April 27 at 7 pm in the Chilmark Community Center. Thank you, Marie Larsen, Jeffrey Maida, and Matt Poole, our select board members, reviewing the details of each of the warrants.
The League of Women Voters of Martha’s Vineyard will be hosting a forum for candidates running for office in Chilmark. The IN-PERSON forum will be held on Monday, April 20, at 6 pm at the Chilmark library. Candidates will have an opportunity to speak, and there will be time for questions from the audience. The program will be filmed and available for viewing on MVTV On-Demand from shortly after the forum until Election Day.
Rebecca Haag is running uncontested for the select board seat currently filled by Marie Larsen. Thank you, Marie, for your service. Rebecca directed Island Grown Initiative for eight years before stepping down in 2024. Currently she serves as the chairperson of the M.V. Hospital board of trustees. She is thoughtful, and has a great deal of experience as a senior manager in corporate and government settings.
Town elections at the Chilmark Community Center are noon to 8 pm, Wednesday, April 29.
Mary Grady is running for the cemetery commission, replacing Judith Flanders. Mary founded Chilmark Chocolates, and has been a counselor and board member of Camp Jabberwocky for many years.
Also on the ballot for re-election are planning board members Peter Cook, Hugh Weisman, and Mitchell Posin, library trustee Kalia Allen-Posin, Elizabeth Oliver for board of assessors, and Drew Belsky for board of health.
Running for re-election to the finance advisory committee are Marshall Carroll III and Deborah Hancock.
Since there are no candidates for the open fence viewer, tree warden, and surveyor of wood, lumber, and bark positions, they will be decided by the names we write in.
The last day to register to vote or change your voter registration information in order to vote at the annual town meeting and election is Friday, April 17. You may register to vote in person on the last day to register (April 17) from 9 to 11 am and 3 to 5 pm, at the Chilmark Town Hall, 401 Middle Road.
You can confirm your voter registration, register to vote, or change your voter registration online via links on the town website at bit.ly/TOC_ChilmarkVoting.
The deadline for receipt of a voting-by-mail or mailed absentee ballot application to apply to be mailed for an annual town election ballot is April 22 at 5 pm. Your application can only be accepted if it has reached the Town Hall office by the deadline.
Registration is open for the summer programs at The Chilmark Community Center.
Connect to End Violence is holding its annual Sexual Assault Awareness Walk on Saturday, April 11, weather permitting. Registration begins at 9:45 am, and the walk starts at 10 am. The rain date is Sunday, April 12. Email emedeiros@mvcommunityservices.org with any questions.
The hospital has redecorated around the exceptional collection of art lining the walls. On the walls lining the third floor, through the doors marked Patient Rooms/ICU, there is a beautiful collection of black-and-white portraits of Islanders taken by Nina Bramhall in 1984. And there are spiffy new furniture and updates to the cafeteria.
This might be the week that the flowers along South Road peak.