Hayley Duffy
Coastal climate change experiment pulled from Vineyard waters
A novel experiment proposed to study ways to slow climate change through dumping thousands of gallons of sodium hydroxide into waters less than 10...
The way of the kei
It’s impossible to ignore 22-year-old Thomas Smith’s truck. First, it’s small. Really small, and white, and quite rectangular. While driving on Beach Road, Smith’s...
Advocates warn of ‘brutal’ impacts of immigration bill
Island immigrants and advocates are reacting with worry after a bill that targets undocumented individuals passed the U.S. House of Representatives last Tuesday, warning...
Rising criticism of State Forest cutting plan
When David Vanderhoop, elder of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), heard about a plan to clear out acres of trees in the...
Homeless shelter struggling to find permanent location
Harbor Homes, the nonprofit that runs the Island’s only homeless shelter, is again renewing a search for a permanent facility, after a denial from...
Documents add some clarity to homeless camp clearing
State officials are facing tough questions over their handling of clearing a homeless encampment in the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest earlier this summer,...
Coastal climate change experiment postponed
A novel climate change mitigation experiment that raised concerns among some regional environmental entities and local fishery groups has been postponed, potentially to next...
Impacted by clearing, public defender sees increase in charges against homeless
A court-appointed defense attorney for Dukes County said she’s seen an increase in additional charges pressed against individuals experiencing homelessness on the Island following...
Musicians frustrated with Dock Dance resolution
The fate of Dock Dance, Edgartown’s weekly free outdoor concert at Memorial Wharf, has been up in the air for the past few weeks,...
County officials push for better forest management
The recent treatment of the homeless in the State Forest has reignited another county official complaint about the state Department of Conservation and Recreation’s...
Island effort to help those displaced from State Forest
Less than a week after Island officials learned that the state Department of Conservation and Recreation cleared homeless encampments in the State Forest, a...
‘Paris has the Olympics, Menemsha has scallop-shucking’
It was the perfect afternoon for the 7th annual Meet the Fleet, hosted by the Martha’s Vineyard Fisherman’s Preservation Trust on the Menemsha docks...
Pandemic home buyers here to stay
During the pandemic, the real estate market on Martha’s Vineyard was booming: houses sold at record highs with many city residents buying homes to...
State Forest homeless encampments cleared by state
Updated Aug. 2
Last Thursday, Sharon Brown, director of homeless services for Harbor Homes, received a call from a member of the Island’s unhoused community...
Emhoff: ‘Run like we’re behind’
With 99 days until the presidential election, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff spoke at a private Island residence to raise money for the Harris campaign...
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer visits Island
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer made a visit to the Island this past weekend to discuss her new memoir, “True Gretch: What I’ve Learned About...
The Ruffian and the Payback
It has been said of Edgartown Harbor that there are the haves and the have-yachts.
And amid all that extraordinary wealth, represented by the fleet...
Harbor Homes identifies new, permanent location
After years of searching, and up against the clock, the Island’s only homeless shelter has identified a new location to house the Vineyard’s increasing...
Possible turbine debris spotted in Edgartown
Edgartown officials say that debris from the broken Vineyard Wind turbine blade may have come ashore on the Island on Thursday evening. Vineyard Wind...
Climate change, lye and a possible solution near the Vineyard
A novel experiment to study ways to slow climate change that includes dumping thousands of pounds of sodium hydroxide, commonly referred to as lye,...