George Brennan
Play a Big role in someone’s life
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
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
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
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
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’
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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’
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
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
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
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
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’
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
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
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...