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'Twas Christmas Eve and Santa Claus was readying for his trip to see his Vineyard friends, of course, but traveling not by ship, nor ferry boat nor...
From midnight mass to services for children with music and stories, churches around the Vineyard are open for worship on Christmas Eve and Christmas...
Nature seems to whisper during a snowstorm as a blanketing hush falls over the land, sky and sea. Even the foghorn sounds muffled.
The rock and the general — those are the words I use to describe my paternal grandparents. Herbert and Claire Mercier, married for 63 years, created...
I woke up wearing a hospital gown. The paper napkin tie-on dress was a faded robin’s egg blue, dotted with orange bloodstains from the burns that...
"Christmas is coming! Christmas is coming!" That’s how my grandmother, Addie Crist, would greet me when she came to visit my parents and me for the...
Norman Bridwell, who died last week at 86, was living proof that there really are no absolutes in life, and that especially includes rejection. The...
The prolonged cold snap which the Vineyard has experienced for virtually two weeks without a thaw has caused the older inhabitants to rack their...
The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $182,254.48 for the business week ending on Friday, Dec. 19, 2014.
An Oak Bluffs resident is challenging the award of an aquaculture license at Eastville Beach. Jacob H. Ludwig 3rd is asking the superior court to...
Artists Kenneth Vincent and David Wallis were awarded a lease by the town selectmen last week to use the old West Tisbury police station as a studio...
Fluttering up as well as down, and to the sides, are the flying acrobatics of winter moths. With their recent high densities, these invasive seasonal...