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It was a record year for hunting deer on the Vineyard. A preliminary total of 855 deer were harvested this past year by hunters from October...
The Norton Point Beach breach may close as early as this year, an event that would bring to an end a dramatic, five-year phenomenon that has eaten...
The Harbor View Hotel closes down during the last two weeks of the year. But notice the lights blazing in the penthouse apartment. This is the home...
In 1996, there was one high school girls’ hockey program on the Cape and Islands. It started as a club team, composed of former figure skaters,...
Meet the Island’s most reluctant tourist, the ring-necked pheasant. Plucked from a bucolic life on a MassWildlife-sanctioned game farm in New...
Mill Pond, the placid 17th century swan-dotted pond that graces the entrance to the village of West Tisbury, is the scene of a quietly growing...
Tax bills are out in Oak Bluffs, the only town on the Island that has set its tax rate yet this year, and the result is a mixed bag. Some property...
On Jan. 15 more than 90 people gathered at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center for an afternoon of videos, music and discussions about the Occupy...
By TODD FOLLANSBEE
He was calling from the police station and he was crying. We had a bad connection, but it sounded as if he were in some awful trouble up in Canada...
I love to work a crowd from top to bottom
and as wide as they make em
as long as you’ve got ’em.
I love to work a crowd
that I can swim across...
From Gazette editions of January, 1937:
News dispatches say that Hitler ordered all the German people to eat more fish. The implication is that...