The 70 Project: Martha’s Vineyard’s first Boomer turns 70
According to the Healthy Aging Task Force, the street lists as of January 2015 showed 362 Vineyarders born in 1946 — 24 percent more than born in 1945, and 44 percent more than in 1944. There are a...
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Make your mark on 2016 with a Martha’s Vineyard calendar
Everybody and everything from the chirpy morning talk show host to your iPhone and computer insists on telling you the date. But why settle for those when there’s a bright new batch of homegrown...
View ArticleOak Bluffs Planning Board seeks public opinion on proposed town hall
The Oak Bluffs Planning Board (OBPB) will hold its first public forum to discuss a proposed new town hall in the downstairs meeting room of the current town hall on Thursday, January 14 at 5 p.m. “The...
View ArticleMVC unanimously approves Oak Bluffs North Bluff seawall project
The Martha’s Vineyard Commission Thursday unanimously approved the $5.6 million North Bluffs project, a corrugated steel seawall and boardwalk that will run from Oak Bluffs Harbor to the public fishing...
View ArticleSSA alerts customers to predicted high winds Sunday
Updated 11:50 am, Saturday The Steamship Authority sent out an email Saturday alerting customers that the National Weather Service has issued a high wind watch from 9am to 7pm, Sunday. The National...
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Slideshow: New Year’s Eve on Martha’s Vineyard was a blast
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View ArticleOak Bluffs Planning Board seeks public opinion on a new town hall
The Oak Bluffs Planning Board (OBPB) will hold its first public forum to discuss the concept of a new town hall in the downstairs meeting room of the current town hall on Thursday, January 14 at 5 p.m....
View ArticleRegional high school welcomes Charter School students to swim team
For the first time since the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School was founded, its students have been allowed to join the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School varsity swim team. Charter School...
View ArticleCandidate for high school principal job drops out of search process
David Fabrizio, current principal of Ipswich Middle School, dropped out of the running for the job of Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School principal Monday. “Mr. Fabrizio explained that Ipswich’s...
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Edgartown police make arrest in bloody Starbuck Neck break-in
Updated 3:30 pm, Tuesday Edgartown police have made an arrest in connection with a house break-in on Starbuck Neck Road near the Harbor View Hotel around 1:30 am Tuesday. Evidence at the scene included...
View ArticleEdgartown closes Cape Pogue to scalloping
At a regular Monday-evening meeting, Edgartown selectmen voted to approve a shellfish committee recommendation to close Cape Pogue to recreational and commercial scalloping beginning this Saturday. The...
View ArticleSchool leaders asked to renovate high school to fit 21st century vision
Chris Blessen of Boston-based Tappe Architects, a firm that specializes in school construction and design, told a group of Martha’s Vineyard school officials and parents on Thursday night that in...
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Gone huntin’: The primitive pursuit of success on Martha’s Vineyard
Hunt or fish long enough, and you will begin to repeat the same stories, complaints, and dreams so that even your most patient friends, or spouse, will ask you to stop. My wife, Norma, stopped...
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Martha’s Vineyard cat identified as Alabama dog is reunited with Vermont owner
The mystery is how a cat from Vermont, who was mistaken for a dog from Alabama, landed on Martha’s Vineyard. For Fran Hendricks, his grateful and very happy owner, it was enough to have him safely...
View ArticleChappaquiddick residents remain divided as ever over wireless strategy
A survey of Chappaquiddick property owners intended to gauge public opinion about the best way to improve cellular service on the small, easternmost island community indicates that the topic remains as...
View ArticleOak Bluffs launches new town website
The much-anticipated, new and improved Oak Bluffs town website was quietly launched into cyberspace on Monday afternoon. Although there was no fanfare, town officials see it as a major improvement in...
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Up-Island Cronig’s owner plans to install solar canopies
Cronig’s Market owner Steve Bernier plans to install an array of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels that will include roof panels and vehicle canopies at his State Road West Tisbury property, which...
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Oak Bluffs planning board plans new town hall outreach campaign
Updated Tuesday, January 19, 3:27 p.m. Before a standing-room-only crowd last Thursday night, the Oak Bluffs Planning Board (OBPB) outlined an aggressive public campaign to survey and to inform town...
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College hockey attracts a big, enthusiastic Martha’s Vineyard crowd
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Principal finalists visit Martha’s Vineyard Regional
The two candidates for the job of Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School principal, Sara Dingledy, principal of Westchester Square Academy of New York City, and David Williams, former principal of York...
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