Monthly Archives: February 2024
West Tisbury: Leading up to presidential primary
The past week has been one gray day after another. A shaft of sunlight may come through by mid-afternoon, but I can’t remember waking...
Woodside Story: Pass the readers
I’m here to tell you that some of us still enjoy reading.
All the same, as a lifelong reader, writer, and bookstore owner (Sun Porch...
Tisbury: Movie night at the library
Heard on Main Street: Are you planning how to use your extra day in 2024?
The Net Result has just reopened. I do miss them...
Wild Side: Reconsider ducks
The late, great Vern Laux, perhaps the best birder ever to trespass his way across the Vineyard, had little patience with ducks. Oh, he’d...
Real estate transactions: Jan. 29 – Feb. 2, 2024
Edgartown
Jan. 31, Stephen E. Cirillo, trustee of Harborside Inn Condominium Trust, sold 0 Harborside Inn Condo Unit 407 Week 15 with a 1/30th interest...
Poet’s Corner: Requiem for a Right Whale
Requiem for a Right Whale
By Jeffrey Agnoli
Beloved cetacean
hogtied with fishing line
before washing up
on the shore
not so many yards
from our
fossil-fueled road
you must have rolled
and thrashed
and...
Oak Bluffs: Valentine’s pop-up at the P.A.
“What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world, devoid of national bias, race hatred,...
Applications for M.V. Bank Foundation scholarships are open
Martha’s Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation announces its annual scholarships are now open for applications. Local high school seniors are invited to apply for one...
Cribbage Club Results
Fifteen members of the Vineyard Cribbage Club met on Wednesday at the MVRHS culinary dining room to play our favorite pastime. The results are...
Court Report: Jan. 29-Feb. 2, 2024
Jan. 29
Josue Deolivera, Vineyard Haven; 24, unlicensed operation of motor vehicle, negligent operation of motor vehicle, speeding violation: Continued to pretrial hearing.
Feb. 1
Lawrence Vance,...
Chilmark: Music and light
My dog fell ill, and as I write, is recovering from surgery and in the ICU at VCA South Shore Animal Hospital (Weymouth). They...
Births
Alden Robert Perry
Anna Perry and Robert Perry of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a son, Alden Robert Perry, on Jan. 29, 2024, at...
Aquinnah: Variety show is coming together
Right this minute I’m looking at a cloud-free, sun-filled landscape. The bare trees are proudly showing off their bent limbs, there are robins in...
Academic honors
Dean’s list
Lilly Kurelja of Edgartown, at Providence College.
Luke El-Deiry of Vineyard Haven, at Florida Gulf Coast University.
Jackson Wojnowski of Vineyard Haven, at UMass Dartmouth.
Bethany...
Embracing the American dream
Every community has its stories tucked away and almost forgotten, but as long as someone remembers, the story is not lost. There are many...
William August Engler IV
Updated Feb. 6
The Engler family of Oak Bluffs mourns the loss of William August Engler IV, who passed away on Jan. 23, 2024, at...
Lorraine B. Earle
Lorraine Bernice Bernadette Bergeron Sylvia Earle, a.k.a. Lorraine Earle, a.k.a. Rainy, a.k.a. Mama Cupcakes, a.k.a. LoLo, 68, of Hull, passed away peacefully at home...
Ag Fair poster contest open
The Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society has announced the opening of its poster contest for the 162nd Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Fair.
Participants should design a poster...
Montessori School expansion faces neighbors’ pushback
The Vineyard Montessori School’s expansion plans in Tisbury faced resistance from neighbors during their first public airing.
On Thursday, Feb. 1, the Martha’s Vineyard Commission...
Tisbury cool to New Bedford freight proposal
Tisbury town officials are pushing back against a New Bedford shipping company’s proposal to bring freight into the Steamship Authority terminal in Vineyard Haven,...