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One of New England's most elegant communities, Edgartown was Martha's Vineyard's first colonial settlement and it has been the county seat since 1642. The stately white Greek Revival houses built by the whaling captains have been carefully maintained. They make the town a museum-piece community, a seaport village preserved from the early 19th century.
Main Street is a picture book setting with its harbor and waterfront. The tall square-rigged ships that sailed all the world's oceans have passed from the Edgartown scene, but the heritage of those vessels and their captains has continued. For the past hundred years, Edgartown has been one of the world's great yachting centers.
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Urgent Notification System |
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The Town of Edgartown will be using an urgent notification system to notify the community of emergencies and other urgent issues. In an ideal situation no notifications would have to be sent, but realistically there will be times when this needs to be used.
There are 2 ways to join:
1. Text the word ALERT to 68398
OR
2. Click this link: http://tatango.com/join/18532-g1MzIwL - PLEASE NOTE: You will be sent a text message with a PIN # to your cell phone - you will need to enter that into the PIN # field on the website.
If you ever want to remove yourself from receiving these messages, just reply to a message with the word STOP.
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Grant Money for Regional Housing Rehab |
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The Board of Selectmen are working in conjunction with Bailey-Boyd Associates to secure grant monies for a regional housing rehabilitation program (currently operating in Oak Bluffs and Tisbury). This program will provide deferred forgivable loans to make critical repairs to owner-occupied homes.
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Every year we spend time looking through various pictures in the process of selecting which ones to include in the Annual Town Report, including the cover. This year, we would like to invite our website visitors to submit their favorite Edgartown pictures to us at
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for consideration to be included in this report. Your picture might end up on the cover! We will include "Photograph by (your name)" to ensure you get credit for your great picture(s). We look forward to receiving your submissions to
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- thank you!
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Emergency Preparedness Guide Online |
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The Town of Edgartown has a downloadable Edgartown Emergency Preparedness Guide. This is an excellent guide for being prepared for hurricanes and other disasters. Please download the guide here. We have also made a Disaster Supply Checklist downloadable which comes from this guide. Please download the checklist here.
Note: Both of these downloads are in PDF format, which requires software such as Adobe Reader to open. Please click here to download Adobe Reader. |
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