It was late Saturday morning at the Island's first Winter Farmers Market in the West Tisbury Ag Hall, and Oak Bluffs metalsmith John Roriz and Kate Collins, a respiratory therapist at the hospital, stood debating which of the Little Rock Farms soups was best, kale or butternut.
The Martha's Vineyard Commission has been promised the final say over all wind power developments in Island waters, following a concerted campaign by all levels of Vineyard local government against a state plan earmarking them for commercial wind generation.
Defendant Jose Luis Arias in court yesterday. Two men were arrested on felony drug charges on Tuesday as they were stepping off the ferry in Vineyard Haven, the latest in a series of major drug busts over the past year involving suspects either caught selling drugs here or trying to bring large amounts of heroin to the Vineyard.
The past week has been beautiful. Jean Wexler called to tell me she had little yellow primroses blooming in her garden, usually a sign of early spring.
Requests for spending and efforts to save confronted the West Tisbury selectmen at their meeting on November 4. However, before getting down to business, selectman Richard Knabel, presiding in the absence of chairman Dianne Powers, noted that due to the rebuilding of the structure this meeting marked the first time in several years that the ...
The all-Island seasonal flu vaccination clinic, scheduled Wednesday, November 11, is limited to 1,200 doses that will be given on a first come, first served basis.
Nathaniel H. Fleming, Providence, RI; DOB 3/6/89, OUI-liquor or .08%: continued without finding for one year, must attend driver alcohol education program and pay program fee, $250 state fee, 210-day loss of license, must pay $250 HIF, $50 VDD, $50 VW, and $65 PSF; negligent operation of motor vehicle: dismissed at the request of the Commonwealth; ...
Illness presumed to be swine flu has resulted in the absence of an average of more than 100 students each day of the past week from the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School.
Lambert's Cove Road, between the EC Cottle lumber yard and the Lambert's Cove Beach parking lot is closed to all traffic - motorized, pedaled, or pedestrian - for two weeks to allow for repair of the road, according to the West Tisbury superintendent of streets Richard Olsen.
Ever since a vast tract of Martha's Vineyard forest died two years ago, visitors who stumbled upon the graveyard of gray stalks have called it eerie, bizarre, and sad.
Jack Lionette and the daily leadership calendar. The Island Children's School in West Tisbury was a busy place on Wednesday morning, as two to five-year-olds spread throughout two schoolrooms went about their daily preschool routines.