Monthly Archives: September 2021
Introducing the Island Innovation Summit
Organizers and Martha’s Vineyard ambassadors of the Island Innovation Summit, scheduled for Sept. 6-12, met over Zoom on Tuesday night to provide the public...
Vineyard receives vulnerability preparedness grants
Martha’s Vineyard and Gosnold received $173,843 Tuesday in order to complete phase two of a comprehensive climate action plan for the Dukes County communities.
The...
Blazers take the lead in finals
In the first of the three-game men’s softball finals, the Blazers defeated the Whitecaps 11-4 Tuesday night at Veterans Memorial Park in Vineyard Haven.
While...
Edgartown’s beginnings
Here’s the thing about the Edgartown 350th anniversary celebration. Edgartown, originally called Great Harbor, had been around for some 30 years before it got...
Have Faith: Meet the Rev. Dr. Robert Hardies
My fascination with the Unitarian Universalist Society is based half on its New England history and the other half on a film I watched...
Tisbury officials approve wastewater plan
The Tisbury select board approved the plan of study for the town’s Comprehensive Wastewater Management Plan (CWMP) during a meeting Tuesday.
The plan of study...
Garden Notes: North and south
Weather-titillation buildup? As I write, it looks as though New Orleans is headed for another fearful, Force 4 bashing. Simultaneous with this column’s appearance,...
Visiting Vet: Frolicking Fenster
It was just a freak accident. Fenster, a beautiful but shy Tabby-Siamese mix, somehow got one of her hind legs caught under a double-hung...
Family responds to Chilmark camp report
The civil rights attorney for the family of a 9-year-old Black boy at the center of a July 29 incident at Chilmark Community Center...
O.B. plans veteran housing project
Affordable housing for military veterans may be coming to Oak Bluffs.
At an August 10 meeting, chair of the Oak Bluffs affordable housing committee Mark...
Writing from the Heart: Last resort
In 1955 in Hartford, Conn., in the middle of a raging recession, I took a sip of my last straw. I had applied for...
Dogcharmer: Keep calm and carry on
Dear Tom,
Our 3-year-old rescue Lily goes nuts when she sees other dogs on our walks! She calms right down if she can get close...
West Tisbury: Artisans Festival
Where some see the past couple of cooler days and nights as a welcome respite from the endless heat of summer, there are others...
Tisbury: Cautionary tale
I need to tell you something important. I had a security incident two weeks ago. Things are improving, but, without my home computer working,...
Oak Bluffs: Concert at P.A. Club
“Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.” So said Hal Borland, American naturalist (1900-78), according...
Edgartown: Shoulder season
Happy September. It’s like a switch flipped Saturday night and the weather became September weather overnight. I’m not really complaining. I struggle with the...
Chilmark: Final softball game
Another moped accident and another tragic death in Chilmark. Perhaps mopeds should be banned from Island roads that lack shoulders. My heart goes out...
Aquinnah: Portuguese man o’ wars
Happy Labor Day weekend everyone! We made it. This was one of the roughest summers I have ever experienced here on M.V. It started...
Poet’s Corner
SEVENTY
By Warren Woessner
Pine sap in my hair,
sun in my face,
Steve joking, pointing out the peaks
above me on the ridge
I couldn’t quite climb.
Still, the stream
Far...
Island nonprofit receives funds to fight food insecurity
On Monday, the Baker-Polito administration awarded $27.1 million in federal Community Development Block Grant CARES Act Food Security Program funding to 13 community foundations...