Government
The tax rate in Chilmark will go up from $1.87 to $1.96 in 2008, assistant assessor Pamela Bunker reported at an annual public property rate...
As the Chilmark shellfish department wraps up its first summer, efforts at spearheading restoration projects have been successful. Selectman Warren...
For the second time this week, Chilmark residents confronted increasing demands to reduce personal energy usage when the first proposal for a...
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Saturday called the Bush administration incompetent, the federal Katrina response an embarrassment and the...
While other towns agonized over their town meetings, Edgartown
residents breezed through theirs on Tuesday night, approving a $24
million annual...
New health regulations aimed at reducing groundwater contamination
will result in many homeowners in Ocean Heights and Arbutus Park paying
tens of...
The four big Island towns will for the first time allocate millions
of dollars in community preservation funds at their annual town meetings
this...
After a busy week on the floor, Cong. Willliam Delahunt could not refrain from putting his feet up on his desk to rest. "It's been frenetic," he...
It took just 13 minutes for the state of Massachusetts to end more
than 80 years of independence for the Martha's Vineyard hospital,
and transfer...
The Steamship Authority is expected to impose higher fees and new
restrictions on the operations of its main competitor, Hy-Line Cruises,
when the...
Just over a decade ago, the Massachusetts state government cut
funding for the Dukes County Cooperative Extension Service and forced
closure of the...
Cong. William Delahunt describes himself as an eternal optimist.
Still, his optimism comes easier now than it did four years ago.
Opposition to...