A delightful nut to crack at the PAC
A holiday tradition gets a fresh take as the Yard presents “Nut/Cracked” this weekend at the Performing Arts Center. Based on the classic Tchaikovsky score and the ballet featuring a fantasy story of a...
View ArticleWampanoag tribe will appeal court denial of gaming rights
Updated 7 pm, Wednesday, Nov. 25 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...
View ArticleOak Bluffs fire department moves into new digs
Almost a year to the day from the start of construction, the Oak Bluffs fire department moved into the new $8.3 million fire/EMS building on Wing Rd, on Sunday, December 6. “The 24-hour medics spent...
View ArticleSlideshow: Christmas comes to Oak Bluffs
Click to view slideshow. Despite sunny skies and unseasonably warm temperatures, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Oak Bluffs, with colorful lights shimmering in Ocean Park, decorated...
View ArticleMartha’s Vineyard Airport runways closed for deer hunt Tuesday
On Tuesday morning, more than a dozen hunters dressed in blaze orange gathered at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport to take on the job of eliminating deer from within the confines of the airport perimeter...
View ArticleHealthy Aging Task Force survey results unveiled
In October, the Martha’s Vineyard Healthy Aging Task Force (HATF) distributed a 50-question survey intended to gauge the needs and wants of the Island’s over-65 population to nearly 5,000 seniors, and...
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A perfect Island wedding … at the Ritz?
Over the years the Ritz in Oak Bluffs has been many things to many people: a beloved watering hole for locals to catch an afterwork drink, a stage for bands to perform and promote their music, and...
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Martha’s Vineyard High School soccer standout seeks to achieve success
This fall, Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School senior Jason Lages helped lead the Island soccer team to the Division 3 state semifinals. In the process he broke the school record for goals scored in...
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Chilmark, Aquinnah, tribe unite to protect Menemsha Pond
With the long-awaited dredging of Menemsha channel by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers about to begin, selectmen from Aquinnah and Chilmark, town shellfish constables, and representatives from the...
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Slideshow: Christmas around the Island
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Vineyard Tactical Response Team hones emergency readiness
On a warm summer day, or when the cold northeast winds blow in the winter, Martha’s Vineyard may seem far removed from the types of public safety threats, including terrorism, rattling communities...
View ArticleMVC poised to resume public hearing on North Bluff seawall overhaul
The fate of the proposed $5.6 million North Bluff seawall restoration, one of the most expensive infrastructure projects in Oak Bluffs town history, may rest in the hands of the Martha’s Vineyard...
View ArticleOrpheus and the Beast: The life of Carly Simon
Updated 2:45pm, Dec. 16: A previous version of this article reported Ms. Simon will sign “Boys in the Trees” on Sunday, Dec. 19. The signing will be Dec. 20. Island resident Carly Simon, an...
View ArticleCalling all baby boomers: Are you celebrating your 70th birthday next year?
Updated, Weds., Dec. 16 The Times is celebrating along with you. If you will turn 70 in 2016, we’d like to photograph you at our office at 30 Beach Road in Vineyard Haven. Photos will accompany a story...
View Article‘Spotlight’ highlights the role of investigative journalism
On Saturday, Dec. 19 at 7 pm, The Martha’s Vineyard Times, the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society, and the Harbor View Hotel will sponsor “Spotlight on Journalism,” a special screening of the film...
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Oak Bluffs cuts the ribbon on its new Fire/EMS station
A year to the day after construction began on the new Oak Bluffs Fire/EMS station, about 60 town officials, townspeople, and beaming members of the fire department and emergency medical services...
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Checklist review generates complaints of much MVC meddling
Businesspeople, property owners, developers, builders, architects, and town planners — most anyone with a building project on Martha’s Vineyard — follow a permitting route that begins with the local...
View ArticleIslander hosts Christmas Eve dinner for those in need
Apparently Kristen Araujo of Edgartown can’t help herself when it comes to helping others. Four years ago she and her husband Jay and sons Trey and Devin began a family tradition when they packed up...
View ArticleOak Bluffs North Bluff seawall remains stalled at MVC
At the Martha’s Vineyard Commission’s second public hearing on the proposed North Bluff seawall restoration project Thursday night, the aesthetics of the corrugated steel wall that would buttress the...
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Chilmark, Aquinnah, tribe unite to protect Menemsha Pond
With the long-awaited dredging of Menemsha channel by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers about to begin, selectmen from Aquinnah and Chilmark, town shellfish constables, and representatives from the...
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