Monthly Archives: July 2022
Tisbury School project deficit tops $25 million
A new cost estimate for the Tisbury School renovation and reconstruction project puts the project close to $26 million in the hole, and predicts...
Artist Washington Ledesma’s colorful palette
Washington Ledesma, the Uruguayan artist who has lived on the Island since the early 1990s, has joined the Martha’s Vineyard Art Association, and is...
Poet’s Corner
Greetings
By Dick Fligor
to all, I nod my head
from time to time.
Eye contact kept with all comers.
Coffee house culture gone…
internet shy…
I’ll keep writing to myself
till...
Let him speak
To the Editor:
I think Alan Dershowitz should be allowed to speak at the Chilmark Public Library for a limited number of audience members. He...
Uninvited heat
To the Editor:
Let me get this straight. Alan Dershowitz thinks Ebba Hierta, director of the Chilmark Library, should resign herself to threats of violence,...
MV Governor misses morning crossing
The Steamship Authority’s oldest ferry, the MV Governor, missed its first crossing of the morning Wednesday because of a mechanical failure.
According to SSA general...
Jacque Cage
Jacque Cage, 75, passed away on July 20, 2022, at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital, due to complications from lung cancer.
Jacque was born in Queens, N.Y.,...
Christina Lyn Souza
A beautiful soul was called home on Wednesday, July 20, 2022, and Christy found herself wrapped in the gentle arms of the Lord. In...
Ursula Prada
Ursula Prada passed away unexpectedly on July 9, 2022, at her home at 134 Katama Road, Edgartown. She suffered a short but intense illness...
Margaret and Giulio Pontecorvo
Giulio Pontecorvo, a professor of economics who taught at Columbia University for four decades and served as an advisor to the U.S. and foreign...
Traffic lights could make a difference
To the Editor:
In August 2000, I wrote to the other Vineyard paper that it was high time to consider installing seasonal traffic lights at...
West Tisbury: Hot, dry days and nights
My husband has left me. Bad enough if it were for another woman, but I have been abandoned for a bright red Troy-Bilt lawn...
Edgartown: Have a great week
Another week, another column. Am I running out of clever stories and updates to write about? Yes. Am I writing anyay? Also yes. But...
A fast-tracked, celebrity-style passenger drop by SeaStreak
When you think about getting on the SeaStreak ferry, buying a ticket, and following a schedule, you wouldn’t assume that vessel would stop for...
Thank you, SeaStreak
To the Editor:
Last week I drove to Dartmouth to return a leased car. The dealer there had arranged a ride for me to the...
Learn where the Vineyard can flood
The Center for Coastal Studies, located in Provincetown, announced in a press release it has completed a two-year coastal resiliency and sea level rise...
Oak Bluffs goes to mat over yoga
The Oak Bluffs parks and recreation commission is under fire after a long-running yoga group was ousted from Inkwell Beach early Thursday morning by...
Camp Jabberwocky to hang banner in Edgartown
The Edgartown select board unanimously approved Camp Jabberwocky to hang a “Run for Jabberwocky” banner on Main Street, in front of the Wharf, from...
Tisbury Council on Aging: August 2022
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Hello! We encourage you to join us to explore, get fit, meditate, relax, play, play, laugh!
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