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New Bedford Airport cleared for more international flights

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Opening up the possibility of a new air gateway for Vineyard travelers just a short ferry ride away, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have cleared flights that originate...

Single-car crash in Chilmark sends driver to hospital

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Chilmark Police said Jermaine Sharpe, 26, of Vineyard Haven was highly intoxicated when he drove his 2001 Honda Accord off South Road just past the entrance to Quenames, heading west, and slammed into a...

Oak Bluffs Police locate missing elderly woman

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Updated 5:30 pm, Tuesday Following an all out search and an appeal for help from the public, Oak Bluffs Police located Ruth Lockhart, a 71-year-old resident who went for a walk about 9 am Tuesday morning and...

Oak Bluffs man drowns in great pond swimming accident Saturday

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Updated Monday, 5 pm Despite the efforts of rescuers, Clinton Griesser, 32, of Oak Bluffs drowned Saturday afternoon while swimming in Edgartown Great Pond in the vicinity of Wilson’s Landing, a public launch ramp located on...

Second Edgartown man arrested on cocaine distribution charges

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For the second time in as many days, police have arrested an Edgartown man for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. Late on Wednesday afternoon, officers from the Martha’s Vineyard Drug Task Force arrested Arthur M....

Gone fishin’: A walk on the beach and new friends met along the way

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President Barack Obama departed Martha’s Vineyard Sunday evening. Over the course of his 16-day vacation he played golf on 10 days, mostly teaming up with elite current and former NBA players, and wealthy businessmen...

Oak Bluffs selectmen asked to act on mopeds

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The agenda at Tuesday night’s Oak Bluffs selectmen’s meeting listed a “Discussion of King’s Rentals layout on Circuit Avenue Extension.” On the face of it, the discussion was in response to a complaint that...

Edgartown man arrested on cocaine distribution charge

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Early Tuesday evening, officers from the Martha’s Vineyard Drug Task Force arrested Everton G. Facey of Edgartown, for possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute, after they stopped him in his vehicle and...

Edgartown selectmen move cemetery care to highway department

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At a special joint meeting of the Edgartown selectmen and the personnel committee Wednesday to discuss management of town cemeteries, town leaders agreed to to hand over care of the cemeteries to the Edgartown...

Manuel Correllus State Forest superintendent will pull up stakes

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Two years after Ginny Dautreuil took the job of Forest and Parks Supervisor at the 5,343-acre Manuel F. Correllus State Forest she will take her leave on Friday, Sept. 2. Ms. Dautreuil, 37, and...

Up-Island school district project costs raise tension and voices

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A meeting of the Up-Island Regional School District (UIRSD) committee that included a discussion of 11 capital projects with an estimated total price tag of $998,401 generated considerable tension Monday night. At one point,...

Ag Fair topped off marvelous Martha’s Vineyard summer

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It was too hot; it was too sunny, dusty, and crowded too. But there was nowhere else that thousands of Islanders and visitors wanted to be last weekend than the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society...

Mass. commercial striped bass season closes

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The Massachusetts 2016 commercial striped bass season ended on Friday, August 19, when the Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) estimated that the state’s commercial striped bass quota of 869,813 pounds would be reached. Until the...

Turnpike toll plan incentivizes transponders

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The Massachusetts Department of Transportation outlined new toll rates for all-electronic tolling on Bay State roads, greatly increasing the cost for drivers without transponders. Drivers traveling from New York to Logan Airport without a...

Filming for ‘Chappaquiddick’ gets green light from Edgartown selectmen

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On Monday night, Kia Quinlin, a representative for Los Angeles–based production company Apex Entertainment, presented Edgartown selectmen with a revised filming schedule for the movie “Chappaquiddick.” The film revisits the events of the evening of...

On Martha’s Vineyard visit, Hillary Clinton declares: We will win

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton touched down in Edgartown Saturday night as part of a weekend fundraising swing that included stops on Nantucket and Cape Cod and added millions of dollars to her campaign...

Martha’s Vineyard nonprofits seek to raise more than $51 million

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Traditionally, Martha’s Vineyard nonprofits engage in fundraising during the summer months, when seasonal residents and visitors are present to bolster their operating budget’s bottom lines. Taste of the Vineyard, a June fundraiser for the...

Shell Recovery Partnership has best summer yet

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In 2009, Jessie Holtham was working at the Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group hatchery by day and as a waitress by night at Offshore Ale Company in Oak Bluffs. Based on her work at the...

Fireworks ignite fierce beach grass fire on State Beach

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A father shooting off fireworks as part of a birthday celebration for his daughter ignited a fierce beach grass fire Monday night on State Beach in Oak Bluffs. Oak Bluffs Fire Chief John Rose said...

A recap of President Obama's Martha's Vineyard summer vacation

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President Barack Obama and his family boarded Marine One at Martha's Vineyard Airport and departed the Island about 6:20 pm, Sunday evening. For the most part, the average Islander, at least those not able...