The Martha's Vineyard Times
Local officers take on fitness challenge
Members of the Martha's Vineyard Tactical Response Team will compete against other first responders throughout the Northeast in a fitness contest.
The 911 Fitness Challenge...
Island businesses invited
The Martha's Vineyard Times has invited Island businesses to a presentation of the newspaper's new online directory features. The event will be held Thursday,...
Chilmark sets Middle Line Road lottery for Jan. 19
Chilmark selectmen have set January 19 for a lottery to award six affordable homesites in the Middle Line Road housing project. There are 14...
Chilmark approves tour bus, interviews candidates
Chilmark selectmen Tuesday approved a one-year license for a locally operated bus tour company to run Island tours with four buses during the 2010...
Christmas kindness continues
Allison Bartlett, the recipient of an act of Christmas kindness when an anonymous shopper quietly paid for her Christmas tree at the Thrift Shop...
Retail, actually
To the Editor:
Let us please remember that Morning Glory Farm (MGF) is a retail operation selling mostly produce trucked in by Sid Wainer and...
Regarding an uniformed critic
To the Editor:
John Abrams owes David Wiley and the people of Martha's Vineyard a public apology.
I personally filed the lawsuit with two other neighbors -...
Sold out
To the Editor:
I agree with Michael Scarborough, in the December 31 Letters to the Editor ("Island tradesmen disadvantaged").
Why are union contractors hiring illegals or...
The issue is offshore wind turbines
To the Editor:
Okay, time to jump in the waters, so to speak. The issue of wind power development in the state waters as mapped...
Reckless hunting behavior
To the Editor:
I am the person who was recently injured in the hunting accident at the State Forest on Martha's Vineyard. I am writing...
Noah C. BenDavid
Dina and Shane BenDavid of Edgartown announce the birth of their son, Noah Christopher BenDavid, on December 29 at Martha's Vineyard Hospital. Noah weighed...
Stella W. DeBettencourt
Luke and Danielle DeBettencourt of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of their daughter, Stella Weiss DeBettencourt, on December 26 at Winthrop University Hospital in...
Wren M. Robertson
Elizabeth Bonifacio and Joshua Robertson of Tisbury announce the birth of their daughter, Wren Marie Robertson, on December 24 at Brigham and Women's Hospital...
Achievement
James T. Morse of Oak Bluffs was recently installed as a District Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts at...
Edgartown
There are a number of people on the Island that put considerable time into making the Red Stocking Fund a success, allowing children to...
Survival Skills
The first week of the new decade featured the 50th Martha's Vineyard Christmas Bird Count (CBC), which due to fabulous weather (not) was postponed...
Illusions, reality, and business
That there is an agricultural aura surrounding Morning Glory Farm and a bedrock, founding fathers, even 19th century ethos attached to the preaching of...
Martha’s Vineyard District Court Report
December 11, 2009
Ernest P. McFarlane, Brookline; DOB 4/3/64, larceny by check over $250: to be dismissed upon payment of $700 restitution and $100 court...
West Tisbury selectmen add Anna Alley to pond panel
The West Tisbury selectmen last week appointed Anna Alley to the Mill Pond Committee, bringing that panel's membership to four. The pond and how...
Hypnosis for New Year’s resolutions
Hypnotherapist Cynthia da Silva is offering group hypnosis classes designed to help people stick with their New Year's resolutions. A four-session series designed to...