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Report Calls for Changes to Strengthen Future Role of Island
Planning Agency
By JULIA WELLS
Overhaul the review process for developments of...
The lobster fishery in the waters around Martha's Vineyard has
collapsed. Today a new minimum size for lobsters goes into effect. The
increase, a...
The Martha's Vineyard Land Bank, the Felix Neck Wildlife Trust and the Massachusetts Audubon Society closed on a land purchase last week that will...
War with Iraq was the top subject in class and on the minds of
regional high school students and teachers on Wednesday. Close to 600
students...
Student Protest Against Iraq War Triggers Suspensions in Clash with
Administration
A peaceful student protest against war in Iraq bubbled into a...
Oak Bluffs Police Receive Overtime Pay
By CHRIS BURRELL
Oak Bluffs police officers are about to receive the kind of windfall
most employees only...
Iraq Countdown Separates Young Vineyard Family
By MANDY LOCKE
Seventeen hours before Jared Meader joined his comrades in Western
Massachusetts,...
MVC Election Wins Approval
State House Compromise Clears Path for Special Vote in May on a
Petition in Oak Bluffs to Secede from Commission
By...
Island Education Leaders Fear Budget Cut Layoffs
By CHRIS BURRELL
Bracing for the possibility of even deeper cuts to state aid for
schools,...
Five years ago, Kim Angell found herself one step away from being a
welfare mom.
"My husband disappeared. I had no job, three children under
the...
The state wants to spend $3.25 million replacing the Big and Little Bridges on Beach Road along Sengekontacket Pond with concrete structures, but...
Four-Town Refuse District Takes Initiatives to Put Financial Affairs
in Better Order
By MANDY LOCKE
Heeding their auditor's stern warnings, the...