Monthly Archives: September 2022
The ‘Real Deal’
One sunny and fragrant day last spring, Jemima James and I sat out on her back porch in West Tisbury as she talked about...
This Was Then: Pernambuco, Brazil
The Brazilian state of Pernambuco could be compared geographically to Massachusetts: a small, populous, Atlantic coastal state shaped like a rectangular(ish) slab, sporting 100...
A new adaptation
Dana Valentine is a pensive young ex-con who is offered a life-or-death opportunity to join a covert society of assassins that rights the wrongs...
Wild Side: The cicada that sang in the morning
On Thursday, August 25, I met with high school science teacher Anna Cotton to discuss a natural history classroom project she’s developing. We briefly...
Wild and free
Take a walk out in the woods or along a stretch of beach, and you’re sure to see a ton of wild edibles —...
Dukes County Health Council: Working for your health
Imagine going to your doctor for a routine visit, and being advised to exercise more regularly to preserve your mobility and to improve your...
Disobedience has its upside
(Note: I grew up living with my grandparents, Sadie and Elton Wood, and as more time goes by, the more I appreciate the years...
Poet’s Corner
Climate Change
By Vi Larsen
A bottle floats helplessly into a mass of hungry plastic bobbing through the endless sea
A polar bear stumbles weakly over the...
Cribbage Club results
The Vineyard Cribbage Club met with 20 members on Wednesday at the American Legion Hall in Edgartown. We played our usual six games against...
Holmes Hole season finale
Both of the final HHSA races saw perfect summer weather and serviceable, if fickle, 10-knot breezes. Thursday evening brought 10 boats out to sail...
Leader – McCarthy
Elizabeth Clare Leader and Evan Patrick McCarthy were married on August 20, 2022, at John Henry Newman Chapel in Colorado Springs, Colo. The bride's...
Births
Eleanor Frances Gottlieb
Jaime and Michael Gottlieb of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a daughter, Eleanor Frances Gottlieb, on Sept. 1, 2022, at Martha’s...
Real Estate Transactions: August 29 – Sept. 2, 2022
Edgartown
August 30, Colonial Reproductions Inc. sold 42 Field Club Drive to Steven Chilinski and Lisa Oppenheimer for $2,200,000.
August 30, Imprimis LLC sold 29 Main...
Court Report: August 11-29, 2022
August 11
Hillary C. Seaton, Oak Bluffs; 45, assault and battery on family/household member: continued to pretrial hearing.
Tarcisio M. Dasilva, Vineyard Haven; 25, uninsured motor...
Celebration of life for Albert W. Warren Jr.
There will be a celebration of life for Albert W. Warren Jr. on Sunday, Sept. 18, 3 to 5 pm, at the P.A. Club....
Minton Forman Goldman
Professor Minton Forman Goldman died on August 31, 2022.
Born in Manhattan to Julius and Hessie Forman Goldman, Minton attended DeWitt Clinton High School in...
Businesses take a breath
As the peak summer season comes to a close and the post–Labor Day shoulder season begins on Martha’s Vineyard, residents and business owners are...
West Tisbury crash snarls traffic
A crash on rain-slicked roads near the intersection of State and Stoney Hill Road snarled traffic between 2 and 2:30 pm Tuesday. Traffic headed...
Ferries diverted from Oak Bluffs
On Tuesday the Steamship Authority diverted multiple ferries from Oak Bluffs to Vineyard Haven due to weather conditions.
In an email to The Times, SSA...
Comment on Revolution Wind’s draft EIS
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) released a 598-page draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for Revolution Wind, an offshore wind farm proposed to...