rug
Peter Pap buys and sells art you can step on. “It was rather by chance that I ended up an Oriental rug seller,” he said. “I simply started by...
Marthas Vineyard Regional High School football
When Charles McGrath wrote about the annual Island Cup game between the Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket football teams for the New Yorker in 1984, he...
boat
It is indeed bad news to see that cod, once the most abundant fish in our waters, continues to have a hard time. Despite huge efforts on the part...
Friday, August 3: Mostly sunny. Oak Bluffs harbor is bustling with visitors on the promenade and boats in the water, in the afternoon. Youngsters...
mark snider
“I was a pest to a lot of people when I first came to the Vineyard in 1967,” confessed Mark Snider, owner and managing director of Mattakeset...
crab spider
“Patience is the greatest of all virtues.” Though Cato the Elder figured this out around 200 BC, it is likely that crab spiders could have told...
night heron
Gus Ben David, of the World of Reptiles and Birds, and I have received a few calls or e-mails about ailing sea birds and shorebirds. Deb Hancock...
corn silk
No more Mrs. Nice Guy! I have had it with the voles in my vegetable garden. I have tried several deterrents for the little pests. Nothing has...
Emily Mercier, daughter of Susan and Philip Mercier of Edgartown, was named to the dean’s list at Smith College for the 2011-2012 school year....
Chilmark Nicholas Negroponte and Debra Z. Porter purchased 3 Signal Hill Lane in Chilmark from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute for $2,650,000...
martina thornton
Martina Thornton was sworn in as the new county manager on Wednesday evening. Mrs. Thornton, who served as executive assistant to the county...
Sengekontacket Pond will reopen for shellfishing Friday morning following state tests that came back clean, Edgartown shellfish constable Paul...

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