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Crows Gather Each Morning like Cambodian Elders By Jill Jupen Early each morning the crows gather around and take turns cawing at each other like the Cambodian refugees used to gather in a tiny Vermont...
View ArticleEdgartown School Geography Bee
The Edgartown School will hold its annual Geography Bee, sponsored by National Geographic, on Wednesday, Jan. 25, beginning at 9 am in the school gym. According to a press release, 10 student...
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Oak Bluffs man arrested on Cape for open and gross lewdness
Barnstable police charged Edward Panek, 58, of Oak Bluffs, with open and gross lewdness for exposing himself to people at a public beach parking lot in Hyannis Saturday morning. Edward Panek. —Polk...
View ArticleFEMA emergency funds available to Island nonprofits
The national board of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), through its Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP), has made funds available for Dukes County nonprofit organizations that...
View ArticleMarine Biological Laboratory offers fellowship for journalists
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) offers fellowships that aim to acquaint journalists with the laboratory and field research done at the MBL in Woods Hoie. The MBL, an affiliate of the University...
View ArticleMaking a choice on words
To the Editor: I do not know John Dipple, but this is my response to his letter (Jan. 19, “He opposes the sanctuary Island idea”). I grew up in a family and a town where losing your job was, and still...
View ArticleMVRHS swim team defeated by Apponequet
On Tuesday, the Martha’s Vineyard High School girls and boys swim teams visited a strong Apponequet squad. The girls lost 98-54 and the boys were defeated 98-35. For the girls, co-captain Renee Goodale...
View ArticleMVRHS sports results Jan. 19-25
Varsity girls basketball Friday, Jan. 20: Vineyard 69, Somerset Berkley 52 MV highlights: Molly DeBettencourt (45 points, 9 rebounds, 5 steals, 5 blocks), Whitney Schroeder (11 points, 7 rebounds, 6...
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Island gymnasts compete in Hanover
Island Gymnastics competed at the Dream Big Invitational, hosted by South Shore Gymnastics Academy, at Hanover High School on Jan. 22. Gymnasts Grace Voshell (bronze), Sara Goodale (silver), and Molly...
View ArticleMartha’s Vineyard Squirt Smythe Mariners show their might
MVYH’s Squirt Smythe Mariners had a strong showing in their doubleheader against the Somerset Watuppa Swansea Chiefs at Driscoll Arena in Fall River on Saturday, Jan. 21. The Mariners earned a...
View ArticleGrant will help older adults entering the workforce
Elder Services of Cape Cod and the Islands, based in Dennis, was recently awarded a grant totaling $321,413 from Senior Services America Inc., according to a press release. Approximately 90 percent of...
View ArticleSailor abandons boat on East Chop Beach
A sailboat washed ashore at the East Chop Beach Club on Monday night at about midnight, according to Oak Bluffs Harbormaster Todd Alexander. The owner of the boat, David Hawkins, 55, of Falmouth,...
View ArticleEditorial: Despair nationally, act locally
Against the backdrop of dark invocations and graceless sound bites swirling around Donald Trump’s Inauguration and his administration’s clumsy and antagonistic assumption of the levers of government,...
View ArticleOak Bluffs residents invited to view and comment on plans for a new town hall
On Wednesday, Feb. 1, from 10 am to 5 pm, the Oak Bluffs Building Committee will host an open house at Oak Bluffs town hall to show revised concepts and plans for a proposed new town hall. “It is a...
View ArticleEdgartown selectmen consider sustainable energy and immigration
Robert Hanneman of the Vineyard Sustainable Energy Committee (VSEC) asked Edgartown to join his group, an all-Island effort. Mr. Hanneman is a Chilmark resident and acts as a one-man, unofficial energy...
View ArticleEditorial: Vineyarders on the march
As is so often the case when social justice and equity become the enemies of political plutocrats and opportunists, the burden of 2017-brand Trumpian repression will fall unequally on women and...
View ArticleHarold Augustus Bauld
Harold Augustus Bauld of Edgartown and Dania Beach, Fla., died peacefully in the hospice unit at Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale on Jan. 6, after a very brief illness. He was 86. His...
View ArticleThe Martha’s Vineyard Teddy Bear Suite raises $35,000 for Boys & Girls Club
Organizers of the Martha’s Vineyard Teddy Bear Suite fundraiser announced that the annual holiday drive raised $35,000 for the Martha’s Vineyard Boys & Girls Club. According to a press release, the...
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Vineyard swimming loses to Nauset
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Bruce K. Young
Bruce K. Young died suddenly and of natural causes on Jan. 22, 2017, at his home in Madison, N.Y. He was 86. A native of Syracuse, Bruce was one of two children born to Eugene D. and Mabel D. Young. A...
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