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All eyes are on the weigh station at the foot of Main street on the Edgartown harbor. Each morning and evening from 8 to 10, the fish are brought to the scales. Stories of the big one caught and the ones that got away carry on throughout the day and night.
Casting paper ballots marked YES or NO, Tisbury voters overwhelmingly approved 373 to 112 nearly $26 million in new funding for the proposed school renovations.
Gone fishing is the rallying cry for the Island in the second week of the derby. And as always the competition signals that time in the Vineyard year between the waning days of summer and the arrival of autumn.
Dozens of classic cars rolled into Veterans Park for the Tisbury Fire Department's annual classic car show. The event is a fundraiser for the Fallen Firefighters Fund.
The annual Martha's Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Kids Derby brought families to the Oak Bluffs Steamship wharf early Sunday morning. Even before the sun had risen, the two hour fishing competittion was underway.
The sights and sounds of September measure the Island year better than any calendar. Look to the longer evening shadows under a sinking sun, to the blooming dahlias and to the song of crickets.
Families held hands and comforted one another as they gathered around the perimeter of the Edgartown Lighthouse for the annual Ceremony of Remembrance.
Fifty mostly Venezuelan migrants boarded VTA buses to take them to the ferry and then to Joint Base Cape Cod where they would be provided shelter and humanitarian support.
Action during the first week of the 77th annual Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby finds fishermen crowding jetties, surfcasting, and heading out in boats to try their luck offshore.
A humanitarian effort was underway Thursday on the Vineyard to shelter and feed 50 migrants from Venezuela and Colombia who arrived unexpectedly by plane Wednesday afternoon.
Light wind caused the cancellation of the 45th George Moffett Race on Saturday, but sailors brouyyght their boats into Vineyard Haven's outer harbor regardless.
The Martha's Vineyard Horse Council had a Hunter Pace through the state forest this weekend.
The Martha's Vineyard Wind Festival continued this weekend in Ocean Park on a clear, blue-sky day, despite scant wind.
The annual Aquinnah Powwow at Aquinnah Circle began Saturday with the Grand Entry, a procession of dancers and drummers.
With a shake of his bell, Steve Amaral opened the weigh station in Edgartown Sunday morning at 8 a.m. and the 77th Martha’s Vineyard Bass and Bluefish Derby got underway.
Call them the last days of summer or the first days before the official arrival of fall.