Monthly Archives: June 2024
Have Faith: Spirit of summer
Summer is a good time for faith nerds like me. Oak Bluffs especially offers some great guest preachers, and summertime events that inspire everyone...
Garden Notes: Your garden can aspire to rise
As we enter summer, Ron Rappaport’s death tears a large hole in the fabric of Island life. He and his partners in Edgartown maintained...
Fashion at the Tabernacle
Clothes to Go will celebrate 15 years of serving the community with a fashion show held at the MVCMA Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs. This...
The fighting chair of East Beach
For Holly Mercier — like many Islanders and visitors — East Beach on Chappaquiddick is a sanctuary, a beautiful place where friends, family, fishermen,...
An app to pass
If you know me, you know I love those baby meatballs covered in a gooey red sauce folks sometimes serve up at potlucks. I...
Court Report: June 13 – June 20, 2024
June 3
Michael Governo, Vineyard Haven; 58, abuse prevention order violation: continued to pretrial hearing.
Sydney Bierman, Chilmark; 21, operating under the influence of liquor/alcohol, negligent...
New port captain named for Steamship Authority
The Steamship Authority has named Capt. Paul F. Hennessy as the new port captain.
In his new role, Hennessy will ensure that Steamship Authority vessels...
Branch falls onto car on Temahigan Ave.
Oak Bluffs Police responded to a call Wednesday afternoon after a tractor-trailer hit a low-hanging branch on Temahigan Ave. The branch fell onto the...
Cribbage Club results
Twenty-one members of the Vineyard Cribbage Club met to play our favorite game. The results were as follows:
First, Mary Alice Russell, with a beautiful...
Chilmark tennis players losing trust in community center
The decision to replace a longtime tennis pro in Chilmark has re-ignited tensions around the Chilmark Community Center, following a compromise reached at a...
Poet’s Corner: Moving Day
Moving Day
By Cecily Bryant
Measuring the now empty rooms
to see if the next rooms we inhabit will
accommodate this prior life’s comforts
Sweeping the dusty floors and...
Real Estate Transactions: June 10 – 14, 2024
Edgartown
June 10, Richard S. Dubin, trustee of Lots 1-5-9-13 Holly Bear Lane Trust, sold 13 Holly Bear Lane to Joao Silveira Barbosa and Sonia...
Writing from the Heart: MVP
Some years ago, I was one of three judges at the Chilmark library for a children's poetry contest. There were 40 entries, and after...
Shenandoah looks to partner on harborfront proposal
A new nonprofit unveiled ambitious plans last week for the redevelopment of several significant waterfront properties in downtown Vineyard Haven, and already Islanders and...
Raising Juneteenth: A day of remembrance and freedom
Residents and Island visitors gathered Wednesday around the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs to recognize the raising of the Juneteenth flag.
A crowd of at least...
‘Sailing to Freedom’
“Sailing to Freedom” at the M.V. Museum dives into the lesser-known history of the Underground Railroad — the maritime route to freedom.
The show is...
Land Bank: Road infrastructure should match bucolic charm
To the Editor:
The following is a copy of a letter sent to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.
I am writing, on behalf of the ,...
Dr. Deurward Lyeman Hughes
Dr. Deurward Lyeman Hughes, a man of many roles and countless blessings, died at home on April 30, 2024, three days short of his...
Dorothy June Lima Grant
Dorothy June Lima Grant passed away peacefully on June 13, 2024, surrounded by her children and grandchildren, as well as the loving staff at...
Michael Colaneri receives Spirit award
Honored for his extensive service within the Island community, this year’s recipient of the Spirit of the Vineyard Award is Islander Michael Colaneri.
Colaneri has...