Jane Kenyon
I am the stone step, the latch, and the working hinge. I am the heart contracted by joy, the longest hair, white before the rest.-Jane Kenyon
October 31, 2003
Emotions Run High at Two Island Meetings
Unionized mental health counselors at Martha's Vineyard Community Services hesitated this week – delaying a possible move to strike while awaiting newly-promised face to face meetings with board members of the health and human services agency. A strained encounter at Community Service's annual board meeting Tuesday afternoon, however, suggested the time out may not last…
Utility Scrambles to Fix Power Cables
It started two weeks ago when one of the four underwater cables providing electricity to the Vineyard failed somewhere between Falmouth and West Chop.
Then, last Saturday, a second cable failed.
Seafarers’ Friend Director Tells Plan for Gift to Permanent Endowment
The executive director of the Seafarers’ Friends told a group of Islanders on Wednesday night he is working on a plan to leave a sizable portion of the Goldberg Fund to the Permanent Endowment Fund for Martha’s Vineyard.
Emotions Run High at Two Island Meetings
Emotions Run High at Two Island Meetings: Regional School Committee
By CHRIS BURRELL
See also: Vineyard Community Services
Land Court Upholds Power of MVC to Review 40B Housing Projects; Developer of Golf Club Will Appeal
Land Court Upholds Power of MVC To Review 40B Housing Projects
Developer of Golf Club Will Appeal
By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer
For the second time in less than two years, yesterday a Massachusetts Land Court judge ruled that the Martha’s Vineyard Commission has full power…
Lagooon Pond Bridge Will Close for Repairs
The Lagoon Pond drawbridge will be closed for repairs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. all next week while MassHighway workers replace some of the bridge’s structural steel. Traffic along Beach Road will be diverted to the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road during those hours.
“This is part of the ongoing effort to make interim…
Halloween Celebrations Spans the Generations
Halloween Celebration Spans the Generations
By C.K. WOLFSON
Despite whatever contentious spirits might occasionally lurk about, this weekend once again proves the Vineyard is the kind of place where things that go bump in the night are usually giggling, and children who dart around in the dark and cluster at their…
