Jack Shea
Through his lens
A first read of “Asia Calling: A Photographer's Notebook 1980-1997” will grab you, though not likely in ways you were expecting.
Documentary photographer Ed Grazda...
Book biz booms
"Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me": That title has been rattling around my head for the past year. Richard Fariña’s...
Herman retires as MVRHS football coach
Updated Dec. 22
Donald Herman has been teaching teenagers how to play football for more than 40 years, first in his native Georgia, and, since...
Vineyarders lose a wild one, 30-24, to end gridiron season
The Vineyarders and the David Prouty High School (Spencer) Panthers put on an offensive fireworks display last Saturday in their season-ending games before Prouty...
Chippy D-Y chills MVRHS gridders, 29-7
The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School gridders succumbed to the Dennis-Yarmouth High School Dolphins by a 29-7 count on Saturday afternoon at Dan McCarthy...
Purple overwhelms John Paul II 38-6
Updated Nov. 8
The Vineyarder football team dismantled a controversy-riven St. John Paul II (JP II) team by a 38-6 score on Friday night in...
Weather, outages push Island Cup to Sunday
The combination of Saturday’s weather forecast and existing power outages has pushed the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School (MVRHS) and Nantucket High School annual...
Purple crushes Cathedral 32-0 in first win
Hallelujah, they are off the schneid.
The heretofore winless Vineyarders handed Cathedral (Boston) a 32-0 homecoming game thrashing Friday night at Dan McCarthy Field in...
Just getting there was a major hurdle
We’re told that things go bump when Mercury is in retrograde. That moon phase ended this weekend, but not before the Vineyarder gridders had...
Oh, those growing pains
Oh boy.
Feels like it’s head-check time for the Vineyarder gridders after a 15-7 overtime loss last Friday night to a winless (0-3) Sharon High...
Purple lose 28-0 to Sandwich
Things are not good in the Vineyarder football neighborhood, as the Purple fell to 0-3 Friday night after a 28-0 loss to the Sandwich...
MVRHS drops an 8-6 squeaker in OT
Updated
Even before Vineyarder senior and cheerleader Gracie Scheller’s customized version of the national anthem wafted over Dan McCarthy field Saturday night, a full house...
Seekonk trims Vineyarders
The Vineyarder varsity footballers opened the fall 2021 season with a 27-6 loss to the Seekonk High School Warriors on Friday night at Seekonk.
Seekonk...
Football season begins with some heavy lifting
The 2021 Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School football team will begin preparation for the fall season on Sunday, August 15, with a Lift-a-Thon event...
The unknown journey of Lucy Stone
Katherine A. Sherbrooke has written a gripping and important fictionalized memoir of Lucy Stone, fierce abolitionist and the earliest public proponent of women’s rights...
Life as we live it
Oh my.
John Hough Jr. has written a brilliant, wise, and often heartbreaking novel.
In “The Sweetest Days,” his sixth novel, the West Tisbury author and...
Full-blooded characters
“Strange Love” is both a strange and lovely new novel by Fred Waitzkin. It’s a complex story, riven with threads of disillusionment, self-deception, wacky...
Under the sea
Vineyard resident Greg Mone has written an intense and phantasmagorical young adult novel of a future world in the U.S. after the climate change...
COVID case cancels Island Cup
The Island spring football season is over, not with a bang, but a whimper.
The much-awaited 41st annual Island Cup football game between Martha’s Vineyard...
ORR visits MVRHS on Saturday
The Vineyarder football team will play against Old Rochester Regional High School at 3:30 pm on Saturday at Dan McCarthy Field in Oak Bluffs,...