Business Brief: John F. Newsom joins Dockside Real Estate
John F. Newsom of Oak Bluffs has joined Dockside Real Estate. According to a press release, Mr. Newsom has been a summer resident of Martha’s Vineyard since 1947. He moved to the Island full-time in...
View ArticlePoet’s Corner: A Tuesday evening in Edgartown
By Rachel Alpert A Tuesday evening in Edgartown Six chimes elude from the Old Whaling Church bells sonorously ringing in the evening overture. A guitarist crescendos on the Harbor View packed porch,...
View ArticleM.V. Museum hosts 15th annual Children’s Memorial ceremony
The Martha’s Vineyard Museum will hold the 15th annual Ceremony of Remembrance at the Edgartown Lighthouse Children’s Memorial on Saturday, Sept. 24 (rain date Oct. 1), at 1 pm. The museum, under...
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Stuart Bangs continues lifesaving tradition
This summer Stuart Bangs, an Edgartown native, was in command of the first Coast Guard boat to respond to the passenger vessel Majesty when the charter boat with 152 persons aboard went aground in...
View ArticleCall for nominations for Spirit of the Vineyard Award
Nominations for the Spirit of the Vineyard Award are open. This award, given annually, honors those who have served one or more nonprofit organizations on the Island, and whose work has made a...
View ArticleREAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS: September 12 – 16, 2016
Chilmark Sept. 16, Hilary Blocksom, trustee of Hilary Blocksom Living Trust, sold a beach lot on Black Point to Lee and Shelley Garfinkel for $310,000. Sept. 16, David W. Duehren and Anne M. Murphy...
View ArticleMartha’s Vineyard court report: September 12, 2016
Casey Adam Perry, Story, AR; DOB 2/16/86, OUI-liquor or .08%, negligent operation of motor vehicle, marked lanes violation, speeding in violation of special regulation: continued to pretrial...
View ArticleMuseum receives grant to move historic Fresnel lens
The Martha’s Vineyard Museum has learned that it is the recipient of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services’ Museums for America program to move the historic 1854 Fresnel Lens to the...
View ArticleFall Tennis Classic will be played at Farm Neck
The seventh annual Fall Tennis Classic tournament to benefit Martha’s Vineyard Community Tennis (MVCT) will be played Friday through Sunday, beginning Sept. 30, at Farm Neck. MVCT is a nonprofit tennis...
View ArticleKaren Harris
Karen T. Harris, 70, died unexpectedly at home in West Tisbury on Sunday morning, September 18, 2016. She was the mother of Katherine V. Harris of Hatfield and sister of Tom Maki of Kentucky and Mary...
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Alice T. Williams
Alice T. (LaBelle) Williams, 84, of Edgartown, died on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. She was born in Oak Bluffs on Jan. 9,1932, to Major J. and Mary LaBelle. She is...
View ArticleBirths
Ruby Deidamia Church Robyn Church and Adam Church of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a daughter, Ruby Deidamia Church, on Sept. 18, 2016, at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Ruby weighed 6 pounds, 12...
View ArticleEdgartown selectmen reject request to extend seasonal liquor licenses
At their regular Monday meeting, following a public hearing, Edgartown selectmen rejected a request to extend seasonal liquor licenses, which now end on Nov. 30, to include the December holiday season....
View ArticleWest Tisbury selectmen discuss abundance of dead trees
West Tisbury selectmen met on Sept. 14. Topping the light agenda was how to finance removal of an abundance of dead trees on town property and roadways. The cost for the project is estimated at...
View ArticleTribe and Aquinnah receive $275,000 EPA grant
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) and the town of Aquinnah a $275,790 grant that will be used to fund a project to replace a failed...
View ArticleEditorial: Time to crack down
This week, as good people across Martha’s Vineyard come together in each of the six Island towns to begin the arduous process of developing housing production plans (HPP) that will serve as blueprints...
View ArticleBehind door No. 2
To the Editor: Door No. 1, door No. 2, or Carol Merrill? Do those words sound familiar? I remember watching the game show “Let’s Make a Deal” when I was a kid, and not fully acknowledging the passage...
View ArticleMore flexibility needed
To the Editor: The following is a copy of a letter I sent to the Tisbury board of health and board of selectmen. It is a follow-up to comments I made at the public meeting on Sept. 13 to present and...
View ArticleIt was the best
To the Editor: Thank you to all who helped make the seventh annual Best Fest a rousing success. This year we had two 25-piece marching bands lead us in an hourlong parade around the heart of Oak...
View ArticleHe was amazing
To the Editor: Our horse had a horrible accident last week — broke his front leg and severely lacerated his hind in the paddock. It happened in the early evening. We called a vet to the scene, and were...
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