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Weather Service says Hermine will lash Martha’s Vineyard with wind and rain
Updated 11 am, Monday Tropical storm Hermine remains a post-tropical storm approximately 260 miles south of Nantucket with 70 mph sustained winds. Tropical Storm Warnings remain in effect from Watch...
View ArticleMinding Your MV P's & Q's: Minding Your MV P’s & Q’s: I am not your server
Before we get to this week’s questions, last week’s column (Seasonal Shutdown) received an overwhelming response from readers on social media, via comments, and through letters to the editor. I’d like...
View ArticleThis Was Then: Tony the Scissor Man
Antonio “Tony the Scissor Man” DeCarlo walked the streets of Martha’s Vineyard every summer, mending umbrellas, sharpening knives, and grinding scissors for local customers. Wielding a 150-year-old...
View ArticleMartha’s Vineyard school staff ‘celebrate’ start of new year
Martha’s Vineyard Public Schools Superintendent Matt D’Andrea welcomed back more than 550 teachers and staff to the sounds of Kool and The Gang’s “Celebrate!” at an opening-day convocation last...
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Martha’s Vineyard students take to the playing fields
The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School (MVRHS) fall sports season begins this week. The Times spoke with varsity coaches about their teams, players, and prospects, beginning with football, golf,...
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Slideshow: Old-time religion every Sunday at our glorious Union Chapel
It sits atop its own hill at Circuit Avenue and Kennebeck in Oak Bluffs. This central junction means we pass it umpteen times a day on our way to the Post Office, the bakery, the cafe latte joints, and...
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Charter School opens new Jordan Science Center
A crowd of about 50 people attended a cheerful ribbon-cutting ceremony Saturday morning for the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School Jordan Science Center, named in honor of the civil rights...
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Tisbury board of health will present nitrogen regs at public hearing
The Tisbury board of health, rebuffed when it proposed imposing mitigation fees to reduce nitrogen loading in the Lake Tashmoo and Lagoon Pond watersheds, will return with a revamped set of draft...
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Squid trawlers leave a wake of death south of Martha’s Vineyard
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View ArticleChilmark selectmen tack on subject of harbormaster’s comments
Chilmark selectmen met Tuesday and acknowledged the receipt of letters from Aquinnah and Wampanoag officials in which they expressed their unhappiness over the direct and critical comments Chilmark...
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Island voters choose Ogden for sheriff, DeOliveira for register, Fernandes...
Martha’s Vineyard voters went to the polls on Thursday in a state primary election that sets the stage for the general election in November. Turnout was high across the Vineyard — about 30 percent —...
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This was then: The wooden leg
William Cunningham of Boston was barely 10 years old when he was sent to reform school in 1870 for “larceny and disobedience.” His parents were alcoholics, the family was destitute and sometimes...
View ArticleEssay: The passing of the shack; long live the shoebox!
By today’s standards it wasn’t much of a house. It couldn’t have been more than 600 square feet, the water was brackish, there was no electricity, and on windy nights the candle would flicker on the...
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Actress and humanitarian Sharon Stone receives International Film Festival Award
Wearing an elegant, floor-length white dress, actor and humanitarian Sharon Stone accepted a Global Citizen Award on the Film Center stage at the M.V. International Film Festival on Friday, Sept. 9....
View ArticleSteve Besse wins unprecedented third Vineyard Moffett race
Steve Besse won an unprecedented third trophy in the 39th annual Moffett Race held Saturday. It was his second victory in a row. His first win was in 2009. In keeping with the rules established to...
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Martha’s Vineyard students take to the playing fields
The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School (MVRHS) fall sports season begins this week. The Times spoke with varsity coaches about their teams, players, and prospects, beginning with football, golf,...
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71st Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby begins
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Martha’s Vineyard celebrates sixth annual Wind Festival
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View ArticleThis Was Then: The Pawnee House
The Pawnee House is occupied today by Ben & Bill’s, Eastaway, and other Circuit Avenue shops, albeit just a stump of its former four-story glory. Known in the late 19th century for its reasonable...
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Saving the Lagoon Pond shucking shack
Twelve years ago while driving down Vineyard Haven’s Skiff Avenue, I saw her. The little shack on the Lagoon, standing like a lone centurion, a rustic shed with a life and history weathered into her...
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