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County Commissioners Voice Concern Over Heroin Epidemic
7:17 pm, March 3, 2016Steve MyrickEscalating concern about the heroin epidemic, and how the Island is dealing with treatment and support for addicts and their families, was the primary topic at a...
View ArticleJulia Bracaglia Spent Happy Times with Family on the Beach at Gay Head
Thursday, March 3, 2016 - 10:56pmJulia Bracaglia, wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend, died on Sunday, Feb. 21, from complications due to chronic Lyme disease. She was 33 years old and will be...
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Youth Town
9:27 pm, March 3, 2016Some take the bus to Edgartown after school to play games or do homework in a safe, supervised space.
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Stubborn House Fire in Aquinnah Sees All-Out Response Up-Island
9:36 am, March 4, 2016Julia WellsUp-Island volunteer firefighters battled a major house fire off Moshup Trail in Aquinnah for several hours Thursday, finally containing the blaze by evening. No one was...
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Boys Basketball Team Falls in First Round of State Tourney
12:22 pm, March 4, 2016Heather HamacekThe Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School boys’ basketball team ended their post season play in the first round of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic...
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Story Ends After 112 Years; Last Book Checked Out at Edgartown Carnegie Library
7:53 am, March 5, 2016Sara BrownOn Friday the last book was checked out at the Edgartown Public Library building on North Water street, ending its life as a library. In a few weeks the new Edgartown...
View ArticleService Wednesday for Florence Flanders, 99
Saturday, March 5, 2016 - 4:12pmFlorence L. Flanders of Vineyard Haven died on Friday morning, March 4 at Windemere Nursing Home. She was three months shy of her 100th birthday.She was predeceased by...
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Ceremony Marks Move to New Edgartown Library
5:15 pm, March 5, 2016Steve Myrick About 100 people gathered at the historic Carnegie building, which lent its last book Friday evening, to symbolically begin the move to the new Edgartown Library near...
View ArticleNancy Bailey, Warm and Welcoming Presence on Island, Familiar Face at...
Saturday, March 5, 2016 - 4:35pmNancy Thomas Bailey died of heart failure in Venice, Fla., on Feb. 26. She was 73.Born on Nov. 22, 1942 in Abington, Pa., Nancy attended high school in Abington and...
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Girls Basketball Loses Close One to Fontbonne, Ending Season
5:21 pm, March 6, 2016Heather HamacekPost-season play for winter sports at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School came to an end on Saturday as the girls basketball team lost to Fontbonne 43 to 46 in...
View ArticleAnnouncing Grace
1:42 pm, March 7, 2016Laura and Eri Seguin of Edgartown announce the birth of a daughter, Grace Elizabeth Seguin, born March 5 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.
View ArticleSister Island Library Donation
2:24 pm, March 7, 2016The West Tisbury Library has received a gift of books from the Vineyard’s sister island, the Caribbean nation of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
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Minimum Wage Increase by County Stalls Negotiations With Trustees
3:19 pm, March 11, 2016Steve MyrickA new Dukes County Commission resolution that sets a $15 minimum wage for all employees and contractors has stalled negotiations on an agreement with The Trustees of...
View ArticleGrand Jury Indicts Three Men on Drug Trafficking Charges
3:46 pm, March 7, 2016Sara Brown A Dukes County grand jury last week handed down indictments for Jeffrey A. Sylvia, Aaron M. Watkins, and Desmond J. Roderiques on charges related to drug trafficking on...
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A Vineyard Affair, the Donald, Marla and Me
4:18 pm, March 7, 2016John RosenmillerBack in the summer of 1988 while Donald Trump was publicly basking in the success of his book, The Art of the Deal, he quietly came to the Vineyard with a little...
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Rev. Francis Creamer Jr., Civil Rights Champion, Spent Summers on Chappy
Monday, March 7, 2016 - 4:38pmThe Reverend Francis B. Creamer Jr. died peacefully in his sleep after a short battle with cancer. He was 79.Fritz, as he was known to his friends and colleagues, was the...
View ArticleMarch Tweeds Reads Meeting Talks About Trump
4:57 pm, March 7, 2016The March installment of Tweed’s Reads reading group at West Tisbury library will take up the topic “the prison of group think.”
View ArticleSandpiper Realty Associates Attend Conference
5:04 pm, March 7, 2016Associates from Sandpiper Realty, Inc. joined real estate professionals from around the world at the Luxury Portfolio SUMMIT.
View ArticleLovingkindness Sale
5:16 pm, March 7, 2016Lovingkindness, a Vineyard-based company dedicated to caring for Island elders, is having a big sale.
View ArticleCoast Guard Auxiliary Offers Course
9:24 pm, March 7, 2016TheCoast Guard Auxiliary is offering a 10-week boating skills and seamanship course starting Wednesday, March 22.
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