Restaurants, food stores, retail shops and farm stands on Martha’s Vineyard keep varying hours. Some have been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic and staff shortages, and some close temporarily in the off-season. What follows is a regularly updated list of what is open and what is closed on the Island.
Due to expected severe winter weather conditions, TestMV will delay opening until nooon on Monday, Jan 17.
The organizers of the voting rights march scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 15 have decided to cancel the event due to severe weather conditions predicted.
With the first half of $3 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding in hand, the county commission met Wednesday to talk about the distribution process.
At a meeting Tuesday, the Oak Bluffs select board settled on Brian Smith as the town’s newest representative to the MVC.
From the Jan. 12, 1962 edition of the Gazette:
The little old fashioned sloop which is being built at the Martha’s Vineyard Shipyard, Vineyard Haven, has begun to take shape. The completed keel, of pasture oak, was laid last week, stem-post installed and the stern, and moulds and fairing-strips put in place. As the weekend approached, Cap’n Albert Allen, the master-builder, was completing the final details before beginning to plank up the hull.
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