West Tisbury
Staking out the best spot on the Duarte's Pond bridge.Ivy Ashe
Earthworms make great bait for trout.Ivy Ashe
William Hermann, Cabot Thurber and Colby Zarba carry five trout to be measured in the awards tent.Ivy Ashe
Finished with fishing, Brooks Carroll and Jack Tully have a worm wrestling contest.Ivy Ashe
Scarlet Pangia receives a new fishing reel from Cooper Gilkes.Ivy Ashe
Riley Sylvia and Veronica Wendt study their new hardware.Ivy Ashe
Cam Maciel caught the largest overall fish, a 19 1/16" pickerel.Ivy Ashe
William Nicholson shows his winner's trophy to older brother Wyatt, who won the Kids' Trout Derby two years ago.Ivy Ashe
Town Column
News
Chris Hathaway and Michael Selitti Jr. stood at the ready on the slab at Up-Island Automotive this week, waiting for the next customer to pull in. The slab is home base for the gas attendants at the...
James Flight Alley, 81, former West Tisbury postmaster and selectman, conservationist and life-long Democrat, real estate broker, horse dealer, farmer, new- and used-car salesman, and owner, with his...
West Tisbury will be the last Island town to decide two marijuana questions next week: one to prohibit public consumption and another to place a one-year moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries...
Celebrations
The following students were named to the dean’s list at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst for the fall 2012 semester:
Warren Gowell, Tiffany A. Johnson, William Jurczyk-Villota, Liam McCarthy...
Anna Luckey and Billy Bradley of West Tisbury announce the birth of a daughter, Isla Luckey Bradley, born on April 19 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Isla weighed 9 pounds, 7 ounces at birth.
Anna Hughes of West Tisbury was named to the fall 2012 dean’s list at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Obituaries
James Flight Alley, 81, former West Tisbury postmaster and selectman, conservationist and life-long Democrat, real estate broker, horse dealer, farmer, new- and used-car salesman, and owner, with his...
Judge Benjamin Lee Bird of Washington, Va. , a longtime West Tisbury seasonal resident, died of congestive heart failure at his Virginia home, Horseshoe Hollow Farm, on April 16. He was 95.