The year-round gateway to the Island, Tisbury’s working waterfront is where the Steamship Authority’s main terminal resides in the village of Vineyard Haven.

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A rising tide and the fate of two boats

The 115-year-old Violet launched looking like new, and a modern power boat almost sank.

Updated June 9. They say a rising tide lifts all boats.  But on Vineyard Haven Harbor on Monday, there was one historic wooden sailboat rising triumphantly after being restored, and…

The scoop on change

In a shifting Island business landscape, the Ice Box is one of many stores to change hands.

To the long list of changes in ownership of Island businesses that includes the legendary Linda Jeans in Oak Bluffs and even stalwart enterprises like the Chappy Ferry in Edgartown, add The Ice Box, a seasonal ice-cream shop in the Tisbury Marketplace.  The Ice Box transaction deed shows that Salopia LLC sold the Ice Box…

Ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrates reconstruction of Owen Park Pier 

The planning and execution of the project spanned the tenures of three Tisbury harbormasters.

Officials from the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber of Commerce (MVCC) and town of Tisbury commemorated the reconstruction of Owen Park Pier with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday morning after a decade of planning. About 50 people clustered together by the park’s shore to take in speeches by community leaders before the ribbon was cut. The planning…

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