Unitarian Universalist Society Church claims rainbow flag was stolen
A Rainbow flag that has hung outside the Unitarian Universalist Society Church off of Main Street in Vineyard Haven was reported missing to the Tisbury police Monday. Dorie Godfrey, president of the...
View ArticleEdgartown library taps Aquinnah for its new director, Lisa Sherman
The Edgartown library board of directors has named Lisa Sherman of Edgartown to be the new library director. For Ms. Sherman, it will mean a shorter commute to work. Ms. Sherman is currently the...
View ArticleSlide show and video: above Martha’s Vineyard
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View ArticleEdgartown police recover stolen Rolex and GoPro camera
Aided by a guilty conscience, Edgartown Police recovered a Rolex watch and a GoPro camera stolen from a vacationing family in Katama last weekend. Police said the culprit was the boyfriend of the...
View ArticleOak Bluffs Planning Board deliberates under threat of litigation
The decade-long saga of a Southern Woodlands subdivision, the remnant of the never-completed Down Island Golf Club, added another colorful chapter last Thursday when the Oak Bluffs Planning Board...
View ArticleIslanders host party for retired superintendent James Weiss
Newly retired Martha’s Vineyard Public Schools Superintendent James Weiss arrived at a celebration held in his honor Saturday night at the Grange Hall in West Tisbury, dressed for the part. His...
View ArticleCheer and charity at Possible Dreams Auction Sunday night
A chance for an experience of a lifetime brought a full crowd to the 37th annual Art Buchwald Possible Dreams Auction at the Winnetu Oceanside Resort in Katama Sunday night. The auction, a staple...
View ArticlePreservation Trust buys Edgartown Carnegie Library building
Edgartown selectmen on Monday unanimously voted to sell the town’s Carnegie Library building on North Water Street to the nonprofit Martha’s Vineyard Preservation Trust for $1. The Preservation Trust...
View ArticleFrom Martha’s Vineyard to South Sudan
In 2012 and 2013, Lilly Schott, a Martha’s Vineyard Hospital maternity nurse, traveled to Africa to lend her skills and services on an emergency mission with Doctors Without Borders, or Médecins Sans...
View ArticleFederal judge orders tribe to stop work on bingo hall
U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction that orders the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) to stop any work to turn its unfinished community center...
View ArticleRegistry of Motor Vehicles cuts days of operation for Vineyard office
As of Monday, July 27, the Martha’s Vineyard Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) office located in the airport business park is only open Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8:30 am to 4 pm with a one hour...
View ArticleGrant will help restore one link in natural chain of Mill Brook
Near the source of the Mill Brook along North Road in Roth Woodlands, an earthen berm and two small, misplaced culverts prevent brook trout and endangered American brook lampreys from reaching their...
View Article‘77%’ gives 100 percent value
As you leave the theater after watching “77%” by Rinne Groff, directed by Claudia Weill, the third offering of the Vineyard Playhouse summer season, you’ll have that itchy feeling you’ve experienced...
View ArticleM.V. Chamber Music Society mixes it up with Beethoven and Billy Childs
A mix of classical music and jazz informs much of this Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society’s 45th-anniversary summer concert series, and Monday night’s concert at the Old Whaling Church in...
View ArticleOak Bluffs Planning Board allows subdivision development to move forward
After a month of wrangling and under the threat of litigation, the Oak Bluffs Planning Board (OBPB) agreed with the buyers and sellers of the Preserve at the Woodlands on amendments to the special...
View ArticleAuthor Junot Díaz opens up
On Thursday evening, Pulitzer Prizewinning author Junot Díaz greeted a packed garden at Noepe Center for Literary Arts in Edgartown with the question, “Is anyone here from New Jersey?” Hands flew into...
View ArticleWest Tisbury monument will honor new generation of veterans
In anticipation of erecting a new monument that will honor West Tisbury veterans, town officials are actively seeking the names of West Tisbury residents who have served in the military since World War...
View ArticleTribal rock musical “Hair” takes the stage at the Performing Arts Center
If you don’t read those words, you SING them, then you came of age in the late Sixties, and quite possibly you went the whole hog — leather vests over naked chests, love beads and love-INS, “Lucy in...
View ArticleEdgartown approves updated police department policies
In a step toward accreditation from the Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission (MPAC), Edgartown selectmen on Monday approved updated rules and regulations for the Edgartown police department....
View ArticleEdgartown selectmen order Arbor Inn to halt business
Edgartown selectmen voted unanimously on Monday to issue a cease-and-desist letter to the Arbor Inn on Upper Main Street. Selectmen made the decision after learning that owner Lorna Giles has operated...
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