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Community suppers: Good food, good company
Sharing a meal with friends and neighbors can be the best way to lighten a long winter night. A number of the Island's churches,...
Chilmark
The Chilmark Library announces it will have a Friday night family movie series running for eight weeks from now through February. The movies will...
Survival Skills
The first week of the new decade featured the 50th Martha's Vineyard Christmas Bird Count (CBC), which due to fabulous weather (not) was postponed...
Aquinnah
This may be the last column for a while that contains any real information. If I remember last year correctly, Aquinnah goes into hiding...
New, temporary drawbridge opens; new, permanent bridge to come
With little fanfare, and even less ceremony, the temporary Lagoon Pond drawbridge opened to traffic yesterday afternoon. Police officers stopped traffic at both ends...
Wild striper bill coming next week
A bill that would prohibit the harvest and sale of wild striped bass in Massachusetts begins its upstream legislative journey next week in the...
Not the last word
Since early November, I've been working freelance for the Martha's Vineyard Commission to copy-edit and wrestle onto pages the final, printed version of the...
When snow has to go, towns plow, push, and blow
Island towns are grappling with sizable snowstorms this winter, putting a strain on local budgets. Most towns have mobilized all of their snow removal...
Final Ocean Act plan set
Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Ian Bowles released the final version of the ocean management plan Monday. He and other state officials described...
Home rehab grant totals $1 M
It is a cold, clear, sunny morning on Hitchings Circle in Oak Bluffs. Scattered around Laura Lee DeGregorio's yard are a half dozen trucks...
Hospital dollars to fund $1.1 M in health projects
The Martha's Vineyard Hospital must provide $1,140,000 for community health projects in order to comply with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) process...
Illusions, reality, and business
That there is an agricultural aura surrounding Morning Glory Farm and a bedrock, founding fathers, even 19th century ethos attached to the preaching of...
Martha’s Vineyard District Court Report
December 11, 2009
Ernest P. McFarlane, Brookline; DOB 4/3/64, larceny by check over $250: to be dismissed upon payment of $700 restitution and $100 court...
Shot in throat, Cape man recovers
Dr. Joseph Asiaf, a 73-year-old pediatrician from Centerville who was struck in the neck by one buckshot pellet fired by an unidentified deer hunter...
Nothing Smart about it
Nowadays, it's all about mileage and doing the right thing. When I was a kid, it was all about style, or at least our...
West Tisbury selectmen add Anna Alley to pond panel
The West Tisbury selectmen last week appointed Anna Alley to the Mill Pond Committee, bringing that panel's membership to four. The pond and how...
On the trail of those grants: Alice Boyd’s interest and need led to career
Alice Boyd began her extraordinarily successful career securing federal dollars for Cape and Island towns out of instinct. The instinct was self-preservation.
"I was working...