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Reading Rainbow: Books in Boxes, Library Moves to New Space
By RACHEL KOVAC
Boxes litter the large meeting room of the new Oak Bluffs library on...
Mitigation Plan Saves Rare Plants Alongside Purple Tiger Beetles; Sandy Pathways Are Created Across West Tisbury Road
Consider the outlook of a...
A longstanding land use battle off Moshup Trail in Aquinnah
resurfaced on another front this week, when the town conservation
commission took up the...
Special Town Meeting Set in Chilmark
By BRIEN HEFLER
Harbor repairs, health insurance for firefighters, extending the
town building cap and a...
If you ask Thomas Ronan, he'll tell you it was a great week of
fishing around the Island during the second week of the Martha's
Vineyard Striped...
Capt. Gregory Mayhew, a Vineyard native and lifelong resident of Chilmark, runs the 75-foot steel dragger Unicorn out of Menemsha. This summer, for...
Pots and pans rattle. The television slides back and forth. Each time the bow of the Albatross IV slides up over the crest of a wave, something...
Georges Bank is a huge underwater island - 20,000 square miles and as large as the state of Massachusetts - that lies just below the surface of the...
On an open sea deck, with the rolling waves of Georges Bank a mere eight feet away, Jon Brodziak cuts, and with tweezers takes a bone from each of...
Linda Despres, the chief scientist aboard the Albatross IV, has a
haunting memory of visiting Georges Bank as a 23-year-old scientist.
"I have...
The old wooden sailboat up on blocks inside the shed at the
Martha's Vineyard Historical Society in Edgartown doesn't
look like much.
The white...
The question of how cod stocks fell so low in the waters off New
England is almost as perplexing as the question of how to bring about
recovery....