Geoff Currier
Open enrollment for the Health Connector ends Jan. 23
Open Enrollment refers to the yearly period when people can enroll in a health insurance plan. The enrollment periods for commercial plans are typically...
Oak Bluffs library gets a Steinway
David Stanwood’s studio is located in a gabled, hip-roofed barn on a dirt road behind his house in West Tisbury. Inside the barn is...
Mike Adell: ‘You make time, you figure it out’
Two-thirds of the way through my interview with Mike Adell about volunteering on the Island, I thought to myself, “My word, there’s only so...
Dealing with diet over the holidays
It’s a mixed blessing. You look forward to holiday parties and going out to eat, but you know there’s a price to pay. But...
Moving a museum
Last week, the Martha’s Vineyard Museum completed its move from the old campus in Edgartown to its new location at the renovated Marine Hospital...
‘Forty Years in the Making: The Magic Music Movie’
In the Sixties on Martha’s Vineyard, several musicians played coffeehouses — the Mooncusser, the Chilmark Community Center. They’d go on to move to Colorado...
Teaching kids to save
In 1988, on Patti Leighton’s second day of work at the Martha’s Vineyard Bank, she put a note in the suggestion box: “Why don’t...
Waking the house when it’s time to move on
On a cold and blustery January morning in 1987, Joyce, my soon-to-be wife, and I sat in the Black Dog Tavern with the real...
Creating coziness
I don’t have an interior decorator gene. If you ask me how to go about making a room more cozy, I would say add...
The Aronie brothers and their Zero Blaster
It began with an email I received from Nancy Aronie, who many of you know from her Chilmark Writing Workshops, but she was writing...
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
One in eight women in the United States are diagnosed with breast cancer. It’s the most common cancer in women, and the second leading...
In the business of winning
On Wednesday evening, Oct. 17, Island business members gathered at the Winnetu Oceanside Resort for the presentation of the 2018 Martha’s Business Awards given...
In the business of winning
Updated Oct. 22On Wednesday evening, Oct. 17, Island business members gathered at the Winnetu Oceanside Resort for the presentation of the 2018 Martha’s Business...
What’s all the buzz about?
My assignment was to cover the honeybee Hive Tour, held at Norton Farm. We were also planning to shoot a video of the tour,...
Building an ‘authentic local brand’
Bob Fuller began his career teaching and coaching high school and college sports. From there he moved on to running a real estate brokerage...
Jackie Baer’s ‘house of curiosities’
Jackie Baer is 85 going on 19. She’s a painter, a sculptor, a photographer, a collector, a jewelry maker, and a cartoonist, and she...
The facts about vaccinations
There’s a great deal of controversy today surrounding the subject of vaccinations, particularly when it comes to children. It should be noted that Dukes...
Looking back on the Hurricane of ’38
Friday, Sept. 21, marks the 80th anniversary of the Hurricane of ’38, also known as the Great American Hurricane, the Long Island Express, and...
Why would anyone kiss a fish?
When it comes to gaining an edge to win the Martha’s VIneyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby, you have have to make sure your...
What we’ve learned about our screened-in porch
When we first built our house, it was designed to be a post and beam summer cottage, and it was small — very small...