Nannette M. West
Nannette M. West, 69, of Edgartown died on Wednesday evening, March 1, 2017, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Her funeral service will be held in the Chapman, Cole and Gleason Funeral Home, Edgartown...
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Bobbie Donovan
Bobbie Donovan died peacefully on March 2, 2017, at her home in Vineyard Haven, surrounded by family and loved ones. Bobbie was born in Edgartown, on August 8, 1942, to Robert and Mary Baptiste, and...
View ArticleBarbara Bell
updated March 6, 2017, 4:15 pm Barbara Bell, 90, died peacefully at home in Palm Beach, Fla, on March 3, 2017. Barbara, or Bobby, as her friends called her, was the wife for over 68 years of her...
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Owen C. Smith
Owen C. Smith, longtime Edgartown summer resident, died peacefully at first light on Feb. 5, 2017, at his home in Big Pine Key, Fla., surrounded by his wife of 50 years, Chris, and three children,...
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Eleanor L. Waldron
Eleanor L. Waldron died at her West Tisbury home on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017. She was 95. Eleanor was a lifetime Islander and attended the West Tisbury and Tisbury schools. She loved and lived in West...
View ArticleWinter’s Midst
By Margaret Charette Another day has broken through Just as He has planned Mountains of ice and rivers too In God’s snow-covered land Blustery cold-biting wind Snow upon the ground Frost-covered...
View ArticleAgatha Christie’s ‘The Mousetrap’
The Peter H. Luce Play Readers perform this classic on Saturday, March 11, at 7 pm in the Marilyn Meyerhoff Lobby of the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse. A group of strangers are stranded in a...
View ArticleTanya Tagaq in concert
Celebrated Inuit performer Tanya Tagaq takes the stage at the Performing Arts Center at the regional high school on Monday, March 13, at 7 pm. Ms. Tagaq, along with percussionist Jean Martin and...
View ArticleBrandy Wight spearheaded Granary Gallery
Brandon (Brandy) Wight, cofounder of the Granary Gallery and West Tisbury’s first recognized centenarian, died Feb. 26 at his home in Florida. He had grown up coming summers to the Vineyard, and moved...
View ArticleBusiness Brief: Dr. Bryan McShea joins Vineyard Complementary Medicine
Vineyard Complementary Medicine announces the addition of Dr. Bryan McShea, D.C., to their team. According to a press release, Dr. McShea is a graduate of Logan College of Chiropractic located in...
View ArticleIWYC launches transgender support group
This Saturday, March 11, the Island Wide Youth Collaborative (IWYC) will launch a support group for parents and caregivers of transgender young people. This will be the first meeting of a monthly...
View ArticleViolence against women, children, and other men is the target of state campaign
A monthlong, statewide campaign to raise awareness about violence against women, as well as all other sorts of gender-based violence, began March 1. Dukes County Sheriff Robert W. Ogden joined forces...
View ArticleCourt report: March 2, 2017 — March 6, 2017
March 2, 2017 Belmiro Baptista, Pawtucket, R.I.; DOB 5/6/51, miscellaneous statutory violation: to be dismissed upon payment of $1,000; a second charge of miscellaneous statutory violation: dismissed...
View ArticleBecome a volunteer weather observer as part of ‘March Madness’
The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow network, or CoCoRaHS, is looking for additional volunteers across Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. According to a press release, the only...
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Dorothy Duart
Dorothy (Couto) Duart died on Feb. 18, 2017. Dotty was born on Sept. 14, 1942. She was the daughter of Manuel and Genevieve Couto. She grew up in Falmouth, and graduated from Lawrence High in 1960. She...
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Hazelle Knight-Collier
Hazelle Knight-Collier died on March 3, 2017, at the Falmouth Hospital. She was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Dec. 17, 1922, one of three children of Harold and Ida Knight, both immigrants from Barbados,...
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Nannette Mary West
Nannette Mary West, a native of Martha’s Vineyard and resident of Edgartown, died at the age of 69 on Wednesday evening, March 1, 2017, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital, surrounded by her loving...
View ArticleMaribeth Priore and Robert J. Priore
Memorial funeral services for both Maribeth Priore, 61, who died unexpectedly on Sunday, March 5, 2017, at her home in Oak Bluffs and her husband Robert J. Priore, who died on Feb. 25, 2017, will be...
View ArticleYouth hockey faces Jr. Rams in playoffs
On Saturday, March 4, MVYH’s Squirt Smythe Mariners traveled to the University of Rhode Island to take on the third-seeded Jr. Rams in the first round of the Southern New England Hockey Conference...
View ArticleChristian Baldwin
Christian Gardner Baldwin died unexpectedly on Feb. 26, 2017, in Gainesville, Fla. He was 42. Christian enjoyed a lifelong connection to the Vineyard, beginning with his early years; then, for the past...
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