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Chilmark voters marked Earth Day, 2013 by approving a long-sought bylaw aimed at preserving the town's rural character by limiting the size of new houses and additions. After much di...

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The town of Chilmark has about 1,280 homes built between the 1600s and the 2000s, according to planning board chair Janet Widener. The average size of all these Chilmark homes is 2,3...

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The towns on Martha's Vineyard are green and blue, except for Oak Bluffs which is brown and blue. That’s what we found when we compared data from the Massachusetts Registry o...

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At one point during Wednesday night's continuation of the Tisbury town meeting, rainfall on the roof of the school gym was so loud that even the stentorian Clarence Barnes had to raise hi...

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Both Island newspapers are reporting the success of a referendum that was placed on the Oak Bluffs annual town meeting warrant by petition to make future shark fishing tournaments catch a...