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A year after his court-ordered reinstatement as fire investigator in Oak Bluffs, Peter Martell says the town is not honoring his position. Last...
Less than three per cent of the earth’s water is fresh, the water that sustains us. As the oceans rise due to global warming salt water is creeping...
Woods Hole, 1910: idling steam trains exhale vapor at regular intervals, buoys clang out in the channel. An 11-year-old boy from Oak Park, Ill.,...
MONSTER SPECTACLE
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Public spectacles like the annual monster shark tournament have much in common with the gladiator...
Save Our Farmland
An acre a minute. That’s how much farmland is currently being lost to development and other causes in America, according to a...
Vinnie sits at the table in the lounge. He wears, as always, a cap. A big pin in his shirt says I’m The Boss. He’s singing Roll Out The Barrel in a...
Edgartown House Tour
The Edgartown House Tour, sponsored by the Federated Church, is on Tuesday, August 9. Lunch will be served on the lawn at 75...
Pan-Martha Bike Ride
The Pan-Martha Challenge, 50-mile bike-a-thon around Martha’s Vineyard on August 27, will benefit life-saving cancer research...
On the face of it, Suellen Lazarus might seem an odd person to have started a book festival. She was a banker, not a professional bibliophile or...
Island farmers were alarmed this week to learn of the possible presence of a visitor from the mainland: a coyote.
Out in the middle of Meshacket Cove on the Edgartown Great Pond on Wednesday morning, David Schlezinger was going down for the third time, in nine...
Despite worrying declines in striped bass and lobster stocks, regulators this week deferred any significant action to curb the fisheries. The...