Monthly Archives: March 2024
Attend Oak Bluffs town meeting
To the Editor:
Some of you have received several notifications from us. This will be one of the last.
We want you to know we realize...
In the kitchen with Dan Kelleher
Each month, I meet with Island chefs and home cooks and watch them work their culinary magic. Best part? I get to enjoy the...
Call for Island-wide approach to zoning
To the Editor:
On April 9, I understand residents of Oak Bluff will have their annual town meeting, and this year that will include voting...
Toward a more perfect union
I’ve always loved the elegant, aspirational phrase “toward a more perfect union,” found in the opening sentence of our Constitution. It was our Founding...
Support ban on traveling circuses
To the Editor:
Please, support Massachusetts Bills H.3245, S.2197, and S. 2189 that will ban traveling circuses with elephants, big cats, primates, and giraffes from...
Fly-Tying: No bugs allowed
I did it. I finally managed to juggle my shelter schedule on a Tuesday night to get to the Edgartown Rod and Gun Club...
Edgartown girls are basketball champs
Rounding out this year’s middle school basketball season, the Edgartown School’s girls basketball team were awarded the Island championship crown.
The girls capped off an...
High school to host job fair
Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School (MVRHS) has announced its 2024 Spring Job Fair, which will take place on Wednesday, April 3, from 11:30 am...
Slough Farm launches new grant program
Slough Farm will be awarding up to $85,000 this year toward the development of Island-based nonprofit organizations through its new grant, the Slough Support...
The origins of West Tisbury’s New Lane
New Lane in West Tisbury exists because of a clothesline.
In the early days, the Tiah’s Cove Road originated at the two granite posts that...
Sewing new beginnings
On a sunny day in March, the program room of the West Tisbury library was humming — with the sound of sewing machines. The...
Woodside Story: Ya feelin’ it yet?
We’ve all come up with different phrases for it: “the beginning of the end”; “the last chapter.”
Here we all are in our “sunset years.”...
Visiting Vet: No lilies for kitties
Easter is right around the corner. For religious Christians, Easter is a time for celebrating their faith. For more secular folks, it is still...
Writing from the Heart: Accepting us
What other people think of me is none of my business, a mantra I repeat now and then just to remind myself to be...
Garden Notes: Working with the spring
“You know spring has sprung when the herring run.”
In “Finding a Better Balance,” Part 2 of Ollie Becker and Circuit Art’s Great Ponds documentary,...
Serving up chair volleyball
The laughter is contagious, and giggles explode as I enter the large, well-lit activities room at the Tisbury Council on Aging. A chair volleyball...
Working for Your Health: PFAS and you
What is PFAS?
There’s been a lot of news lately — much of it cautionary — about the chemicals known as PFAS (perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl...
A salute to the doctors at MVH
We’re thankful for all the doctors at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital every day of the year, but in advance of National Doctors’ Day on March...
Poet’s Corner: ‘The Lady at the Dumptique’
The Lady at the Dumptique
By Leroy Hazelton
Once she prayed for this
Bottom of a butter dish,
Chipped of course,
That would almost fit the top
Her grandmother gave...
West Tisbury: Signs of spring, egg hunts, Richard Tripp, Music Street, and beach cleanup
Ginny Jones called to tell me about a pair of ospreys that have returned to their nest on the Great Pond on March 17,...