Jobless Island How many Islanders are out of work? No one knows for certain, but we know the numbers are rising to near record levels, mirroring...
By 5:30 p.m. on a midwinter evening, the traffic into and out of Vineyard Haven had thinned; there wasn’t much anyway, the whole day had been...
Shelter in a Storm
Hold the Colas The Martha’s Vineyard Commission’s budget has been thrust under the spotlight, like all government budgets as town and county...
February Medicinal
Harnessing Cape Wind’s Royalty Payments
January Thaw After weeks on end of snow and ice it was nice to see the grass again this week, if even for a few brief moments when the sunshine...
Living — and Buying — Locally Try buying a souvenir T-shirt these days and you can see through the window that it’s half off, but the store is...
For a Good Cause The Community Preservation Act has been a fact of Island life for a relatively short period of time — it was only three years ago...
Town Coffers on Empty
On Ice
January Days The whole Island, it seems, has got a case of the winter blahs. Of course the weather hasn’t helped — gray, rainy, icy, bitter cold,...

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