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Hotel proposed for Ocean View location
Updated April 22
In a change of plans first publicly presented this week, a developer is now looking to build a hotel in Oak Bluffs...
Oak Bluffs development could grow to 136 units
Commissioners still have lingering questions for one of the largest housing projects proposed for the Island, and amid the uncertainty, developers of the 100-unit...
Aquinnah incumbent faces first electoral challenger
Aquinnah select board chair Gary Haley will be facing his first electoral rival since he was elected nearly a decade ago.
Chris Manning, Gay Head...
Voting underway in Edgartown, Oak Bluffs and West Tisbury
Elections are underway in Edgartown, Oak Bluffs, and West Tisbury today that are seeing challengers to a longtime incumbent on the Edgartown select board...
Oak Bluffs voters approve ADUs, sewer upgrades
Except for some clarifying questions, Oak Bluffs voters mostly blazed through warrants at the special and annual town meeting on Tuesday evening at the...
Angst continues over Spring Street review
Tisbury officials are warning the Martha’s Vineyard Commission that a controversial development in Vineyard Haven could open the floodgates for similar types of transient...
Warren veteran amendment nulled before Senate vote
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s proposal to re-establish federal funding for a Vineyard veterans counseling program bracing for federal spending cuts never made it to...
Warren amendment could preserve Island vet funding
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is proposing to re-establish federal funding for the Martha’s Vineyard veterans counseling program that recently learned it would lose a...
Top elected officials fire back over VA funding cuts
Updated April 9
As anxiety swirls around a looming cut to federal funding for Martha’s Vineyard Community Services’ veterans counseling program, the Island’s congressional representative...
VA won’t renew Vineyard veterans contract
In a blow to veterans on Martha’s Vineyard, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will no longer be funding an Island veterans counseling service...
Disabled Coast Guard vessel blocks SSA boat
A U.S. Coast Guard vessel briefly delayed a Steamship Authority vessel’s departure from Woods Hole Monday afternoon.
Sean Driscoll, Steamship Authority communications director, confirmed with...
Nantucket files legal challenge against SouthCoast Wind
An offshore wind development planned off the Vineyard’s coast has been hit with a legal challenge from the Town of Nantucket, where municipal officials...
Oak Bluffs clerk candidates make their cases
With elections only a couple of weeks away, three candidates in Oak Bluffs are making their cases to be elected as the next town...
Nantucket group not giving up on offshore wind fight
A Nantucket-based group is continuing its fight against offshore wind, this time with the Environmental Protection Agency.
ACK for Whales, an anti-offshore wind group from...
Construction starting in June for 60-unit housing project
Updated March 31
New residents won’t begin to move into a 60-unit affordable housing project planned in Oak Bluffs until after Jan. 2027, two years...
Boys & Girls Club proposes 21,000 square-foot clubhouse
The Boys & Girls Club of Martha’s Vineyard is proposing to build a new, larger facility to meet what they see as a rising...
All-Island task force considered to tackle homelessness issues
As the seasonal shuttering of the Island’s only overnight winter shelter approaches and with no permanent location planned, a call is being made for...
Commission weighing projects with over 500 bedrooms
With the Island in the midst of a housing crisis, four large projects — some of the largest developments likely seen on the Island...
Tisbury official vying for Edgartown harbormaster spot
Edgartown has finalized a list of candidates to become the next harbormaster, and one is current Tisbury harbormaster Gary Kovack.
The Edgartown select board interviewed...
Nearly 300-bedroom Edgartown project to start MVC hearing
A large housing development proposed in Edgartown will soon be undergoing the Martha’s Vineyard Commission public hearing process. Nearly 300 bedrooms in a variety...