Elections Conclude; Oak Bluffs Nixes Town Hall Project
8:52 pm, April 10, 2014 Julia WellsOak Bluffs voters spoke their mind on money matters in the ballot box Thursday, approving overrides for the town operating budget and a new $8.3 million fire station....
View ArticleSafe Swimming Lessons for Babies
11:57 am, April 11, 2014Alison L. MeadThe YMCA offers a four-week class that teaches children six months to six years old the skills they need to survive should they find themselves accidentally...
View ArticleA Weekend of Shearing and Shucking
12:03 pm, April 10, 2014It’s a surf and turf kind of weekend on the Vineyard with not one but three celebrations of field and sea.
View ArticleState Details New Plan Aimed at Preventing Oyster Contamination
3:07 pm, April 12, 2014Sara BrownThe state has issued new tougher regulations to guard against outbreaks of a shellfish bacteria known as Vibrio that closed Katama Bay to oyster harvesting for three...
View ArticleSummer Institute Speaker: Jonathan L. Zittrain
Martha's Vineyard Hebrew CenterSummer Institute Speaker: Jonathan L. Zittrain, leading web theorist, presents The Future of the Internet, And How to Avoid It. 7:30 p.m., Martha's Vineyard Hebrew...
View ArticleSummer Institute Speaker: Ezra Vogel
Martha's Vineyard Hebrew CenterSummer Institute Speaker: Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard presents Understanding Modern China: Deng Xiaopeng and His...
View ArticleSummer Institute Speaker: Michael Van Valkenburgh
Martha's Vineyard Hebrew CenterSummer Institute Speaker: Michael Van Valkenburgh, celebrated landscape architect, presents The Role of Parks In an Urbanizing World. 7:30 p.m., Martha's Vineyard Hebrew...
View ArticleSummer Institute Speaker: Arnold M. Eisen
Martha's Vineyard Hebrew CenterSummer Institute Speaker: Arnold M. Eisen, foremost authority on American Judaism, presents American Judaism In the App Generation. 7:30 p.m., Martha's Vineyard Hebrew...
View ArticleSummer Institute Speaker: Charles Ogletree
Martha's Vineyard Hebrew CenterSummer Institute Speaker: Charles Ogletree, the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law at Harvard, presents Understanding Obama. 7:30 p.m., Martha's Vineyard Hebrew Center, 130...
View ArticleSpring Begins to Show
2:27 pm, April 15, 2014Lynne IronsHere it is Palm Sunday and my forsythia is beginning to show some yellow. I have no facts, but it seems particularly late.
View ArticleOak Bluffs Lands Grant to Protect Sewer System During Storms
2:47 pm, April 15, 2014Olivia HullThe town was one of 10 communities to receive a Coastal Community Resilience Grant in a new state program to address climate change. The $200,000 will be used to...
View ArticleCall for Artists
3:11 pm, April 15, 2014The Vineyard Haven library is taking submissions for its Art in June exhibit. Artwork can be completed using any medium but it is recommended the piece should not be more than...
View ArticlePlaying Favorites
3:28 pm, April 15, 2014Join Kevin Keady and friends as they perform songs by Bob Dylan on Friday, April 18, beginning at 9 p.m. at the Wharf Pub on Dock street in Edgartown.
View ArticleNet Result Ready to Reopen
3:35 pm, April 15, 2014Remy TuminThe popular Vineyard Haven fish market will be open for business Wednesday following a crash 10 days ago that ruined much of the storefront and left the fish market...
View ArticleAquinnah Town Column: April 18
9:57 am, April 17, 2014June D. Manning Once upon a time I enjoyed attending Martha’s Vineyard airport commission meetings but that was in 1998 when I recorded and transcribed their minutes — just...
View ArticleChilmark Town Column: April 18
10:01 am, April 17, 2014Jane N. SlaterChilmark has been reminded that it is a small town in a big country as the word has reached us that the Army Corps of Engineers will indeed be dredging the channel...
View ArticleEdgartown Town Column: April 18
10:07 am, April 17, 2014Kathie CaseI am listening to the rain as I sit here. I had looked at the radar photo on my phone and saw a wall of green coming at us. I wonder what the morning is going to bring.
View ArticleVineyard Haven Town Column: April 18
10:11 am, April 17, 2014Nancy GardellaThe weather is psychotic and I, for one, am sick of it. Just tell me now, please, will I be needing to wear my Michelin tire jacket throughout the summer? In any...
View ArticleWest Tisbury Town Column: April 18
10:16 am, April 17, 2014John S. AlleyMonday is Patriots Day and it is also the beginning of spring break week at the school. Trout fishing in the Mill Pond continues to increase each day and should...
View ArticlePublic Record of Cases Heard in Edgartown District Court
10:23 am, April 17, 2014The following cases were heard in Edgartown district court.
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