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Sheriff office confirms booking room is recorded
Legal counsel for Dukes County Sheriff Bob Ogden confirmed in court Monday that the sheriff’s office does in fact record its booking room, which...
State Police investigating Aquinnah vandalism
Aquinnah neighbors are on edge after recent instances of destructive vandalism and graffiti occurred at homes, public roads, and the private West Chop Club.
Some...
Milestone for Island Autism campus
The Island Autism Group has finished the heart of its ambitious planned campus, a new space intended to support youth and adults on Martha’s...
Honoring a Vineyard Black entrepreneur
Vineyarders came together on Sunday in a jovial celebration of Ambler B. Wormley, a Black man who ran a gas station and auto repair...
Popular live music event wins local zoning ruling
A live music event on private property got a favorable ruling from a West Tisbury board on Thursday, although the Radio Farm event will...
Judge sides with sheriffs over Brady record suit
The Dukes and Barnstable county sheriffs have successfully rebuffed efforts by the Cape and Islands District Attorney that attempted to force them to turn...
Tisbury board pushes for Spring Street compromise
The Tisbury zoning board is asking a developer to try to reach a compromise with the abutter of a controversial project who is trying...
Chilmark dispute still unsettled
Updated September 19.
Suellen Lazarus, the embattled president of the nonprofit that runs summer programs at the Chilmark Community Center, is facing new calls to...
Pelican a rare sight for Island birders
Updated Sept. 12
Many find Vineyard summers too busy, and instead visit in September just past peak season. The Island’s latest notable shoulder season traveler...
Was a Vineyard Haven home 100 years old? And why it matters
Ninety-seven Spring Street, a construction project that’s intended to house as many as nine Vineyard Wind workers in a residential district, has caused a...
House advances Vineyard housing bank bill
The Massachusetts House took a step to advance a bill Thursday that would allow the Vineyard to create a housing bank, though the bill...
New rapid Lyme test effective in study
Vineyarders are no strangers to Lyme disease. Nor are Islanders strangers to the current testing method — which can involve waiting up to two...
New row between sheriff, DA looms over open and closed litigation
Cape and Islands District Attorney Robert Galibois II is at odds again with Dukes County Sheriff Bob Ogden, this time about whether the sheriff’s...
High school bans cell phones, other devices
The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School committee voted 5–3 on a new policy to lock away student cell phones and other personal devices during...
Mariposa Museum in dire straits
The sights and sounds of summer are unavoidable right now in downtown Oak Bluffs — sales of junk food and Vineyard merch are in...
George Clinton brings the funk to O.B.
The Mothership landed in Oak Bluffs last Wednesday as funk music pioneer George Clinton brought his Parliament-Funkadelic and the P-Funk All-Stars FunkFest to the...
Sixteen ferry trips canceled over the weekend
Updated August 12
A combination of crew shortages and “unforeseen circumstances” led to 16 Steamship Authority cancellations over the weekend — one of the busiest...
Could recent scrutiny burden Island workforce housing?
Tisbury’s top official is worried that recent scrutiny of some workforce housing projects in Vineyard Haven could lead to a wider loss of employee...
Navigator Homes breaks ground on elderly housing
From Senator Ed Markey to select board chair Art Smadbeck, a mix of high-level politicians and local figures broke ground in Edgartown on the...
Building community around alpha-gal
Hives. Stomach pain. Anaphylaxis. There are just some of the symptoms that more and more Islanders are encountering after being bitten by a lone-star...