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The Chilmark planning board has the authority to regulate large houses through a special permitting process, but cannot simply place a cap on house...
Her flower studio looks more like a temporary movie or stage set than a place of business. Filled with silver vases, vintage glass bottles, ribbons...
With Massachusetts voters being asked in November to decide whether to legalize medical marijuana, the Dukes County Youth Task Force has come out...
The Vineyard is getting skunked! They are in high abundance this fall, ruling the night and leaving telltale tracks to be discovered during the day...
For the past nine months the Chilmark planning board has been working diligently on the question of how and whether to regulate very large houses in...
As Islanders late this week kept a close eye on Hurricane Sandy moving up the East Coast with a possible fury, a small group of world-class speed...
It had been 62 years since Cynthia Riggs had heard from Howard Attebery. The two had worked together during the summer of 1950 at the Scripps...
You’d think with all the technology taking over our lives we would understand more about our surroundings and stumble over them less. But since we...
This past Saturday my wife Joyce and I flew to Ohio to spend a few days campaigning for President Obama. Our friends Tom and Lynn King had agreed to...
As I write this from afar, I can picture the long tables in the Chilmark Community Center, the town clerk’s volunteers overseeing voter check-in and...
An Edgartown man facing charges of illegally practicing law and taking money from clients was arraigned this month on charges of identity fraud.
Every once in a while, a trap door opens and another world of knowledge and experience disappears forever. Or almost. We’ve all seen it happen with...