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Aquinnah moves to forgive tax lien on Gay Head church
The hour of deliverance from tax bondage may be at hand for the apparently leaderless Gay Head Community Baptist Church and its financially beleaguered parsonage. The Gay Head Community Baptist Church...
View ArticlePositive feedback for new MVRHS principal Sara Dingledy
New Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School (MVRHS) Principal Sara Dingledy is off to a great start. Martha’s Vineyard Superintendent of Schools Matt D’Andrea said Ms. Dingledy has received a...
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ZBA asks Island Housing Trust to reduce Kuehn’s Way units
In the face of stiff opposition from neighborhood residents, the Tisbury zoning board of appeals (ZBA) at a public hearing last week recommended to representatives of the Island Housing Trust (IHT)...
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Army Corps will allow J-Way to complete Menemsha dredge project
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Tuesday informed Aquinnah, Chilmark, and Wampanoag tribal officials that it has cleared the way for dredge contractor J-Way Southern of Avon, Ohio, to return to...
View ArticleIsland MCAS scores mixed, but results positive overall
Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) and Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) tests scores released Monday by the Massachusetts Department of...
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Phillips Hardware building retooling goes before MVC
Donna Leon and Susan Phillips, co-owners of Phillips Hardware, and architect Chuck Williams went before the Martha’s Vineyard Commission (MVC) last Thursday to present their plan to demolish the...
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Martha’s Vineyard Derby weigh station crew switches places
Every morning and evening, throughout the course of the five-week Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby a dedicated group of women work behind the weigh station table and manage to keep who...
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Johnny Hoy to receive Creative Living Award
The Permanent Endowment for Martha’s Vineyard announced Tuesday that Johnny Hoy of West Tisbury will receive the 2016 Creative Living Award. “As a musician, a mason, and a fisherman, Mr. Hoy has left a...
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Through a lens brightly
The world’s most powerful lighthouse beacons radiate light more than 20 miles out to sea, the beam emanating from “first order” Fresnel lenses. Reportedly only 39 of the early 19th century beauties...
View ArticleAISC makes progress with school choice, shared-services budget
The All-Island School Committee (AISC) met last Thursday to discuss the fiscal year 2018 (FY18) shared-services budget, and an Up-Island Regional School District proposal to change the funding formula...
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Equine-assisted therapy in West Tisbury provides new benefits
Rising Tide Therapeutic Equestrian Center in West Tisbury is paving the way for new programs in the realm of adult equine-assisted therapy. It’s not often one hears about a blind woman riding a horse,...
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Edgartown Police nab shoplifters, find bags of merchandise
Edgartown Police arrested two Serbian women they said shoplifted from stores in Edgartown and Oak Bluffs. A search of the women’s rented room turned up numerous retail items and four large garbage bags...
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Selectmen threaten Santander with MVC over roof project
Dismayed and out of the loop, Tisbury selectmen took two unexpected votes at their Tuesday meeting in connection with the start of roof construction Tuesday at the Santander Bank, which occupies a...
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Spartans spoil Vineyard homecoming, 21-0
The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School homecoming weekend got off to a rocky start Friday night in front of a capacity crowd at Dan McCarthy Field in Oak Bluffs. The Bishop Stang Spartans, hungry...
View ArticleDMF closes Vineyard waters to shellfishing, except for bay scallops
The Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) has closed all shellfishing in Martha’s Vineyard waters, except for the harvesting of bay scallops, according to Oak Bluffs shellfish constable David Grunden. The...
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Operation Relaxation: A different kind of challenge
Last Sunday night the dining room at the Beach Plum Inn in Chilmark was nearly full, and scattered among the Islanders were six members of the United States military and their families. The eighth...
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Tisbury students get a taste of history
Tisbury eighth graders had their culinary skills and knowledge of colonial history put to the test last Thursday as part of the Colonial Chopped Cooking Challenge, hosted by Island Grown Schools (IGS)....
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Santander roof project hit DRI trigger from the start
Last week, even as construction crews were placing the final shingles on the Santander Bank roof, unhappy Tisbury selectmen voted to refer the project to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission as a...
View ArticleEdgartown will sell three half-acre lots in housing lottery
In what is described as a “community housing opportunity,” Edgartown plans to sell three buildable half-acre lots of town-owned land for $75,000 to a pool of qualified applicants who will be chosen by...
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Gone fishin’: A search for brook trout on Martha’s Vineyard brings hidden...
Tim Sheran of Vineyard Haven is not an advocate in the strict sense of the word. He is not the kind of guy who raises his voice at a public meeting to exhort people to action. An expert fly fisherman,...
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