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Play a Big role in someone’s life

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If you think you don’t have enough time to be a Big Brother or Big Sister, think again. That’s the message from Jim Feiner,...

Gannon & Benjamin, MV Times buildings under agreement

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Investors led by Nat Benjamin have an agreement to purchase the Gannon & Benjamin building, and a second building at 30 Beach Road in...

SSA climbs aboard the electric buses

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Updated @ 7:45 pm The Steamship Authority is purchasing three electric buses from BYD USA for $2.95 million, but will offset that cost with reimbursements...

This year’s soup-er bowl

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With my team, the New England Patriots, out of the playoffs and no prospect of a Super Bowl appearance for one of the first...

Best recommended for Tisbury water committee

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The Tisbury sewer advisory board has recommended John Best as the board’s appointee to the town’s five-member water resource committee, a board that will...

Oak Bluffs man: ‘Mostly peaceful people outside the Capitol’

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Updated 10:32 am, Monday * An Oak Bluffs man who was in Washington, D.C., Wednesday and watched the rally held by President Donald Trump outside...

U.S. Capitol breached by Trump supporters

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Supporters of President Donald Trump, spurred on by his claims that his loss in the Nov. 3 election was based on fraudulent votes, stormed...

Baker: More contagious COVID is likely here

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Gov. Charlie Baker, during a press briefing on Tuesday at Baystate Health in Springfield, said healthcare officials in the state believe a more contagious...

The year things changed

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Leading up to Christmas in 2016, life — as the T-shirt says — was good. Though I was in between full-time jobs after taking a buyout...

Who says you can’t popover?

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My wife and I used to have a naughty routine. (Get your minds out of the gutter.) We’d toss our diets aside on Friday...

Update: Five new COVID-19 cases Wednesday

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Updated Dec. 23 Gov. Charlie Baker is limiting the occupancy in the state’s restaurants and other public venues like casinos, houses of worship, museums, libraries,...

Town officials: No cover up, no collusion

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The Mansion House met its deadline to install a leaching field, and there was no attempt to cover up the hotel’s illegal discharge of...

‘Corruption at its highest level’

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It took the pandemic and the corresponding shutdown of the Mansion House Inn in April and May to uncover an illegal hookup pumping thousands...

New name for community mission

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The Permanent Endowment of Martha’s Vineyard has changed its name to Martha’s Vineyard Community Foundation, a moniker that better reflects its mission of providing...

Nine new COVID cases at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital

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Martha's Vineyard Hospital reported nine new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and TestMV has not reported any new cases because the Quest site was down...

Mansion House installs leaching field

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Updated 3 pm Groundwater that was being pumped into the town’s sewer system illegally is now being diverted into a new leaching field installed at...

Restaurants try to weather the surge

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The recipe has always been the same for the Island’s year-round restaurants. Make as much money as possible from June through September, and those...

Fernandes cousin ‘won’t get the bloody bug’

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The 91-year-old cousin of state Rep. Dylan Fernandes, D-Falmouth, was one of the first recipients of the COVID-19 vaccine in the world. The U.K. began...

Main Street Medicinals: Safe, secure, and stink-free

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Main Street Medicinals plans a $5 million retail, cultivation, and marijuana processing facility at 65 Mechanic St. in Vineyard Haven, Josh Silver, a consultant...

Klingensmith joins Edgartown PD

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On the recommendation of Edgartown Police Chief Bruce McNamee, Edgartown selectmen unanimously appointed Doron Klingensmith as a year-round special police officer.  Chief McNamee said Klingensmith...