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Vineyard shuts out Nantucket, returns with Island Cup
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Make every holiday purchase a local one with Tisbury Turkey
Want to make a difference in the community this holiday season? Here’s an easy way: Buy from the online marketplace Tisbury Turkey (tisburyturkey.com), and support Vineyard nonprofits without spending...
View ArticleReverend Bill is here to stay
On the Sunday following the Paris shootings, it was SRO at the nearly century-and-a-half-year-old UU church on Main Street, Vineyard Haven. The Rev. William Clark was attuned to the churchgoers’...
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Horse lovers seek to create nonprofit riding center at Misty Meadows
A group of Martha’s Vineyard equestrians has taken on the task of creating a nonprofit community center to train Islanders of all ages in horsemanship, and to facilitate therapeutic equine counseling....
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Coast Guard Station Menemsha ups its game
The lights flickered in the mess hall at Station Menemsha one morning last month while the crews ate breakfast. Outside, in the predawn darkness, the most powerful storm of the fall was flooding roads,...
View ArticleWampanoag tribe will appeal court denial of gaming rights
The Wampanoag tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) will appeal a decision by U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV that the tribe cannot turn its long-unused community center into a gambling hall....
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New Lagoon Pond drawbridge opens to traffic
With no fanfare and just a handful of observers to mark the occasion, the new Lagoon Pond drawbridge that spans the channel between Vineyard Haven and Oak Bluffs opened to traffic about 2 pm Tuesday...
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Let the shopping begin
‘Tis the weekend. The holiday shopping countdown is on. The Vineyard celebrates its version of Black Friday with a host of holiday markets, trunk shows, and crafts fairs. Along with the traditional...
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VIDEO: The Lighthouse Project
I have had the idea for this project since the release of my first aerial video of Chappaquidick (bit.ly/overChappy) just over a year ago. Growing up, I spent countless hours fishing and swimming by...
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Cult of comics: An Islander augments the comic book resurgence
What’s a screenwriter to do with the scraps of ideas that, for one reason or another, never make it to the big screen? For D.W. Kann and the team at Darkside Media, taking those ideas “back to the...
View ArticlePolly Hill Arboretum added to National Register of Historic Places
The Polly Hill Arboretum (PHA) announced it is now listed on the National Park Service’s (NPS) Register of Historic Places as the Polly Hill Arboretum Historic District. It was added to the list in...
View ArticleTwo-week shotgun season for deer begins Monday
The Massachusetts two-week shotgun season for deer begins a half-hour before sunrise Nov. 30, and ends a half-hour after sunset on Saturday, Dec. 12. While risk to nonhunters is minimal, public safety...
View ArticleGatchell family lights up for the holiday season
Continuing a 37-year tradition, at 5 pm on Thanksgiving evening, Lynn and Robert Gatchell of Oak Bluffs will hit the switch on thousands of Christmas lights, along with a holiday-decoration lineup that...
View ArticleTisbury selectmen keep tax shift, buck scallop recommendation
Tisbury selectmen held a fiscal year (FY) 2016 tax-rate classification hearing Tuesday, Nov. 24. After hearing from Tisbury treasurer Jon Snyder and town assessor Ann Marie Cywinski, as well as several...
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Whaling Church renovation gets crowning touch
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Demolition begins first stage of Water Street apartment building construction
The construction process for the six-unit affordable rental apartment building on Water Street in Tisbury began Tuesday morning with the demolition of the uninhabitable house on the property. By the...
View ArticleAirport manager Sean Flynn resigns following negotiated settlement
Updated at 3:07 pm Dec. 2 with additional reporting The Martha’s Vineyard Airport Commission met Wednesday morning. After an hour and a half in executive session, the commission reconvened in open...
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Doris Ward and her 100 bricks
Sometimes during the course of an individual’s life, her personal history, the saving graces met along the way, nostalgia, and regret all come together, and add up to a fierce desire to commemorate....
View ArticleAt Hanukkah, an Islander looks back
We were Jewish, one of a handful of Jewish families in Ridgefield, Conn., in the 1950s. The nearest synagogue was in Danbury, so that was where we went for services and religious school. My parents...
View ArticleConservation Society asks Edgartown to support plastic bag ban
Edgartown selectmen agreed at a regular Monday evening to push forward a draft bylaw from the Vineyard Conservation Society (VCS) that would ban plastic shopping bags less than 4 mils (4/1000ths of an...
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