On Chappy: March 6
12:14 pm, March 4, 2015Peter WellsWhy would beings consisting of 65 per cent water live where water freezes? Every winter at about this time I start wondering about us.
View ArticleVineyard Haven Town Column: March 6
12:57 pm, March 4, 2015Nancy GardellaDo you like good writing? Do you like to read? What do you read, Emmanuel Kant, David Berry, Primo Levi, Danielle Steele? All the town columns, the editorials, the...
View ArticleAquinnah Town Column: March 6
1:38 pm, March 4, 2015June D. ManningSnow, more snow, and a little more snow. It has already snowed three out of four nights this week thus far. Sleet, rain, a little warmer to melt some of the ice and...
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A Tree Panel Grows in West Tisbury: Traveling Exhibit Visits Polly Hill
5:43 pm, March 4, 2015Katherine Scott At the Polly Hill Arboretum, horticulturalist Ian Jochems has started planting trees in the frozen ground — not living trees, but important stand-ins: tree-shaped...
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Well Before Summer Crowds, Edgartown Hears Chappy Ferry Concerns
6:03 pm, March 4, 2015Olivia Hull Edgartown selectmen received complaints last week about the line of vehicles that forms at the ferry to Chappaquiddick, which they say hampers access to their homes...
View ArticlePlease Adopt Us
3:32 pm, March 5, 2015Spring is coming, unlikely as that seems. At the animal shelter, we’ve got the first kittens of the season.
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Sea Supremacy During the War of 1812
3:43 pm, March 5, 2015Mark Alan Lovewell In the earliest years of this country, the waters surrounding this young country were extremely vulnerable to foreign invasion, principally by the British Navy....
View ArticleTracking Teen Stress
3:50 pm, March 4, 2015Tracking Teen Stress Vineyarders working with teenagers have documented a rise in stress, anxiety and depression among Island youth. In response, the Island Wide Youth...
View ArticleLand Bank Revenues: Feb. 27
4:02 pm, March 5, 2015The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $39,570 for the business week ending on Friday, Feb. 27, 2015.
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Steamship Authority Hosts Public Meeting Tuesday
12:54 pm, March 3, 2015The Steamship Authority’s Woods Hole terminal reconstruction project will be on the table for public discussion at a special meeting Tuesday hosted by the boat line on the...
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Summer's Around the Corner and Menemsha Is Already Busy
4:06 pm, March 5, 2015Olivia Hull Chilmark is gearing up for summer at Menemsha harbor, where several ongoing improvement projects are underway.In one, the town plans to create a five-foot walkway...
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Vineyard's First Pediatrician Hangs Up His Stethoscope After 38 Years
4:42 pm, March 5, 2015Ivy AsheThe Island’s first pediatrician has announced his retirement. Dr. Michael Goldfein of Vineyard Pediatrics, one of the few remaining private practices on the Vineyard, will...
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Heath Hen Project Advances Quickly
4:49 pm, March 5, 2015Sara Brown A complex and groundbreaking project that aims to bring back the heath hen is advancing “at lightning speed,” scientists said this week. The small bird that is a member...
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School Choice Offers Flexibility for Parents, Logistical Issues for Schools
5:08 pm, March 5, 2015Ivy Ashe Each morning Vineyard elementary school students gather at bus stops in their towns and head off to school. But for 119 students in the school choice program, their...
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County and Airport Spar Over Commission Selection
5:19 pm, March 5, 2015Olivia Hull Appointing members to the Martha’s Vineyard Airport Commission, once a routine task for the Dukes County Commission, has become steeped in controversy. With legal...
View ArticleOak Bluffs Town Column: March 6
12:23 pm, March 6, 2015Skip Finley“Proud to be from OB” is a modest claim compared with past articles. In one Vineyard Gazette article a writer opined, “People have said that there would not be any...
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SSA Plans Reconfiguration of Vineyard Haven Lot
4:13 am, March 7, 2015Ivy Ashe The Steamship Authority is moving forward with plans to reconfigure its staging area and parking lot in Vineyard Haven in order to better accommodate vehicle traffic and...
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Chappy Ferry Battles Ice to Open Passage Across Harbor
2:22 pm, March 7, 2015Tom Dunlop In a fight won inch by inch and hour by hour, an excavator aboard the On Time III dug a channel through a field of ice in Edgartown harbor Saturday morning, freeing the...
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Selectmen Races Shaping Up
2:51 pm, March 9, 2015Ivy Ashe Voters in at least two Island towns will see contested races for town selectmen when they head to the ballot box this April. Races are shaping up in Oak Bluffs and...
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Noah Teller Block, Lifetime Vineyard Visitor and Skilled Woodworker
Monday, March 9, 2015 - 3:16pmNoah Teller Block, a lifetime seasonal resident of West Tisbury and a year-round resident for the last five years, died Feb. 22 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. He was...
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