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An article by Joseph Chase Allen in the June 19, 1953 Vineyard Gazette entitled Oak Bluffs Was Definitely an Island Once described a rising sea level...
More than 80 people turned out Sept. 16 for the Friends of the Vineyard Haven Library 5K Run/Walk and Fun Run. The annual event, which raises money...
We have had some beautiful days. Now we are getting some much-needed rain. But the rest of the week looks good so everyone should be happy.
Mikaella C.A. Silveira and Jorge Jose Silveira Jr. of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a daughter, Ariella Andrade Silveira.
The sea delivered a bumper crop, direct to our beachfront, of late summer succulents. Seaweed piled high like a teenager’s laundry at the foot of the...
Proud purple
Shifting shades
Of red
Hugging clean green leaves
Tucked in sandy bed
Pumped up
With summer sun
Just fresh
From rain
I kneel
To bend
And...
No one ever walked away from a conversation with Tom Hale and said: “I wonder what he wanted to tell me”? Tom embraced life in all its complexity,...
From the Vineyard Gazette edition of Sept. 7, 1945: The sale of the S.M. Mayhew Company general store in West Tisbury was completed last week....
Martha’s Vineyard is a perfect place to start a life. Especially in the fall. A time for renewal. A time to re-tool. The next best thing to moving...
After more than a year of stonewalling, Comcast has finally come up with a specific proposal to bring cable to Chappaquiddick, but it’s a nonstarter.
The sadly troubled groundfishing industry finally hit bottom with last week’s formal declaration by the Obama administration that the New England...
What I don’t know is a lot! For example, I grow beautiful tomatoes, but at the point of ripeness something inevitably happens. Some four-legged or...