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Had a groundhog stirred from his sleep on Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday morning, he would not have seen his shadow, presaging a short time before...
After a month of wrestling with how to close a $238,000 budget gap, the Oak Bluffs selectmen finally took out their scalpels and began to make the...
More than six years after it bought 190 acres of Oak Bluffs land to protect it from real estate development, the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank has...
A rising tide lifts all boats, they say. But the old aphorism about the economy apparently does not hold true for Vineyard real estate, as the most...
HIGH ON THE HOG: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America. By Jessica B. Harris. Bloomsbury, January 2011. 304 pages, photographs. $26, hardcover...
I drove into Owen Park and parked on the hill to hunt for my gloves. Driving while feeling under car seats is not good. I could have left them in a...
Every profession seems to produce a savant who can write about it with a sensibility that few equate with workers in that field. For chefs that...
D eliberately or circumstantially, we are somewhat locked away, and an Island winter is a great equalizer, so one’s nature determines how it plays...
TOWERS OF HOPE
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
It is time for us all to embrace wind power. What a joy it is to see these beacons of hope sprouting...
Silent Stigma
We do not talk much about mental illness. Considering how widespread such disorders are — whether depression or dementia, bipolar or...
Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m 64?
Those iconic words have rattled around in the back of my head for more than four...
Up-Island School Values
The cost of operating the Chilmark School is on the table for discussion again — this time in West Tisbury, which will...