Black Dog Will Pay Fine on Sweatshirts

The Black Dog Tavern Company, Inc. will pay a $50,000 civil penalty for not reporting continued sales of children’s hooded sweatshirts after they were recalled for a strangulation hazard last February, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced this past Friday.

Commission investigators visited two Black Dog stores this past August and saw…

Peace on Earth: May Season’s Peace Start in Our Hearts and Spread Into Our World

May Season’s Peace Start in Our Hearts and Spread Into Our World

By REV. Dr. JOHN SCHULE Special to the Gazette

Once again, it is that time of the year when the darkness is shattered with the light of the angelic chorus: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth,…

Gatchells Light Up Christmas, and Whole Island Takes Note

Robert Gatchell doesn’t mind the large utility bill he’ll have to pay for the six weeks between Thanksgiving and New Years Day, when his otherwise normal house at the corner of County Road and Carole Lane is transformed into a magical kingdom of caroling penguins and dancing Santas.

Land Bank Authorizes Beach Management Plan Despite Neighbors’ Doubt

Land Bank Authorizes Beach Management Plan Despite Neighbors’ Doubt

By IAN FEIN

Longtime Tisbury Great Pond beach owners told the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank this week that its plans for the barrier beach will drastically alter the traditional use of that stretch of the south shore.

Island residents have…

Study Calls for Revival of Mill Pond

Without management, the Mill Pond off Edgartown Road in West Tisbury will look more like wetlands than a pond within the next decade, according to the senior biologist in charge of a town-commissioned report released last week.