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SSA Launches Plan to Tighten Security
By JULIA WELLS
The Steamship Authority will spend about $200,000 this summer to
boost security on ferries...
For members of the Island's Brazilian population, one of the
most frightening prospects is a visit to the hospital. Rather than a
lack of health...
This Fourth of July parade was clearly the biggest. Last
night's fireworks were vivid and colorful. And those words can
also be used to describe a...
A Quincy man vacationing on Chappaquiddick was killed yesterday
afternoon after being sucked into the propeller blades of a 47-foot
white cigarette...
The Emperor of Ocean Park
Blockbuster First Novel Surprises Modest Author Stephen Carter
By JULIA WELLS Gazette Senior Writer
He is a law...
It was one of the town's best-kept secrets, and hundreds of coconspirators kept it quiet for months.
Retiring fire chief Richard H. Clark Jr. was...
Family, Friends, Island Gather to Honor Life of Marc Widdiss
By JOSHUA SABATINI
Friends and family of the late Marc E. Widdiss gathered in the...
Lyme disease may be carried to humans by the deer tick, but this time of year, it's not the deer who are playing host to this tiny insect. It's the...
Revenues fell $1 million at the Martha's Vineyard Land Bank in
the fiscal year just ended, reflecting a distinct new cooling in the
overheated real...
Almost 10 months after Sept. 11, patriotism will bloom fully on the Vineyard this Thursday as Edgartown invites all Islanders and visitors to its...
At 7:15 a.m. Sunday at the Rod and Gun Club in Edgartown, more than
100 people had their eyes set on a 20-inch TV screen in the corner of
the room....
A second round of blood tests has confirmed that two Island men who
fell ill earlier this month with symptoms of pneumonia actually had the
pneumonic...