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After over 30 years producing chocolates and sweet treats for the island, Chilmark Chocolates will close its doors for good on December 18th 2019. They announced the close earlier this year and now the time has actually come.

Our dear friend and colleague, Jennifer Gardner, passed away peacefully on New Year’s Day 2019, surrounded by her family and loved ones.   She touched our lives profoundly and we are grateful for the time we had with her, the opportunity to work alongside her, to experience her generosity and her wisdom and to share our lives together.  We will miss her greatly and we are sending our love and heartfelt condolences to her whole family especially to her mother Leila, her brother Stewart, and her children Griffin and Leila.

On Sept 17th 2018 at the new Ag Hall in West Tisbury, the Permanent Endowment for Martha’s Vineyard honored Vineyard legend Clarence A “Trip” Barnes as this year’s recipient of their Creative Living award.

Tea Lane Associates are excited to be offering this opportunity to purchase one of the most iconic properties in Chilmark, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean at Squibnocket beach.

MVYouth, a community fund founded in 2014, announced their 2017 Expansion Grant awards in January. They awarded $1,350,000 to two Island non-profits serving youth - the Martha’s Vineyard Ice Arena and Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary.

It's very easy to become complacent living on Martha's Vineyard, you can easily take for granted this island and complain about its quirks and challenges, but when I drove up island today, first to meet a broker to preview this new listing on the south shore, and then to open up this house for a showing on Squibnocket Ridge, I was really overcome by how special a place this is. How lucky we are to live here and to experience all that we do in the world of real estate on Martha's Vineyard.

The 16th annual Martha's Vineyard Film Festival is this coming weekend - March 17th – 20th 2016 and is one of the highlights of the Vineyard’s Spring social calendar. The festival attracts movie buffs from far and wide and guarantees a weekend of entertaining movies, though provoking conversation and great food. Tea Lane Associates have been sponsors of the festival for many years and are proud to sponsor the screening of the 2015 and 2016 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winners for U.S. Documentary, “The Wolfpack” this year. A gripping film that follows a resilient gang of brothers locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Chilmark students kicked off their Holiday Break with a round of carolling at Beetlebung Corner. Their first visit was to the amazingly vibrant 100-yr-old Rena Fischer at Beetlebung Farm (see photo). The rest of the tour included Chilmark Town Hall, the Larsen's home across the street, the Chilmark Post Office and the Chilmark Library. Making their way through all of the classic Christmas songs, it turned out that Jingle Bell Rock and Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer were the singers' favorites. It was a treat to hear the childrens' voices ringing through a quiet and warm winter afternoon in Chilmark. Merry Christmas to all!

The Gay Head Light made it to her new location, safe and secure, over 180' from the eroding cliff! The move took two and a half days as hydraulic power pushed this 400 ton treasure gently and slowly along steel tracks. Now she rests as the engineered concrete block foundation is built to fill in the gap from the steel beams as they are retracted, and the move path is back-filled with all soils returning to their original location at the same compaction rate as existed prior to the move. Then the plant materials will be returned and the overall landscape plan will unfold, paying hommage to the lighthouse site from the 1800s with stone wall and repurposing of materials found during the excavation. The Lighthouse is planned to re-open to the public sometime in late July.

After two and a half years of planning and fundraising, the Gay Head Light will start to move to its new location on Thurs, May 28. It will take approximately three days to move along steel tracks to a safer distance of 180' from the eroding cliff edge, which geologists estimate will give the structure another 150 years! This is a truly remarkable project to save an island treasure. The lighthouse will open to visitors again by the end of July 2015.