Monthly Archives: February 2025
W.T. library contractor on notice amid delays
West Tisbury has put a contractor on notice, as the town’s library project is far behind schedule.
Voters have approved millions so far to fix...
SouthCoast Wind construction start date hit by four-year delay
Updated March 3
Officials behind a proposed wind farm nearly 30 miles off the Vineyard’s coast are blaming the Trump administration for an extensive delay...
Stand up to executive branch
To the Editor:
When Donald Trump ran his business, Michael Cohen was his “fixer.” We are now seeing a similar dynamic with Elon Musk. Musk...
Cheers for hockey benefit
To the Editor:
On behalf of all of our board members, I want to thank Coach Matt Mincone and the entire boys HS hockey team...
The State Forest: Stop and engage the community
To the Editor:
Correllus State Forest is one of 38 forest reserves in Massachusetts, the Island’s keystone conservation property, and a treasured community asset carrying...
Remembering an MVRHS icon
To the Editor:
Barbara Murphy and I met in the fall of 1976, when I began teaching at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School and she...
Don’t butcher white-pine groves
To the Editor:
Thirty years ago, I moved out to the end of Skiffs Lane in West Tisbury, bordering the State Forest. I remember asking...
Stand with Family Planning, now more than ever
To the Editor:
Friends of Family Planning (FOFP) knows that the current administration and its anti-choice allies are fighting to gut reproductive rights across the...
The Vineyard needs to rally around its homeless.
The Vineyard is coming up short on one of the most rudimentary moral principles: supporting its most vulnerable.
On March 1, after years of looking...
Steamship Authority donates ad space to local nonprofits
Updated 2:21 pm
The Steamship Authority is donating a quarter of its advertisement space to charities in port communities.
Under the amendment to the ferry line’s...
A nail biter for boys hockey
The Martha’s Vineyard boys hockey fell 2-1 to Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational High School on Thursday night, ending their season in dramatic fashion.
Northeast opened...
Girls hockey falls in overtime
The MVRHS girls varsity hockey team came to an abrupt end Thursday when Pembroke put a puck in the net in overtime.
The girls, building...
Tony’s Market transferred to off-Island business group
The popular grocery store Tony’s Market in Oak Bluffs will be coming under new management by an off-Island company.
On Tuesday, the Oak Bluffs select...
Chilmark basement tattoo parlor investigation leads to gun, drug arrests
Three individuals are facing firearm and drug related charges after Chilmark police investigated an illegal tattoo parlor, allegedly being operated out of an Island...
Robert H. George
Robert George (“Bob”) of Silver Spring, Md., formerly of Chilmark, died peacefully on Feb. 20, 2025, of natural causes.
Born on August 2, 1942, in...
Caring for the environment doesn’t have to end at death
Vineyarders at the Oak Bluffs library on Saturday were faced with a heavy question — how they would like to be buried.
They were there...
A path to restoring a damaged waterway
In a hotly contested issue over a brook circuit that runs through multiple ponds across West Tisbury and Chilmark, a West Tisbury town committee...
The Henrys’ dream
Black History Month was created to focus attention on the extraordinary contributions of African Americans in the U.S. In honor of this initiative, this...
Vineyarders to grit it out in playoff hockey
As the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School’s (MVRHS) winter sports season is winding down, both the girls and boys hockey teams are gearing up...
Garden Notes: Late February survival
To a bird, the bumper sticker says it all: “If you’re not here in February, your opinion doesn’t count.”
The birds that are here in...