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It took 18 drafts, hundreds of hours of meetings and more than a year’s planning, but Tuesday night at the special town meeting, Tisbury residents...
The Martha’s Vineyard Commission voted unanimously last week to accept a set of regulations for a new district of critical planning concern (DCPC)...
Continuing the development of the airport business park, the airport commissioners this week approved the schedule for distributing lots at the park...
After 14 revised drafts and nearly a year of public discussion, a final set of regulations aimed at protecting the historical and ecological...
Atty. Ronald H. Rappaport saluted Island volunteers as the backbone of this community and an indispensable force that makes the Vineyard the special...
Founded in 1693, the Gay Head Community Baptist Church is the oldest Native American church in continuous existence in the country.
She reaches out with cool, fragile fingers — a thin, velour hand steadying herself with a gentle hold. It hasn’t been such a good month for her...
Two young girls from New Jersey got their first exposure to overt racism this week when they returned from a morning walk into downtown Vineyard...
The Brickmans, Cronigs and Levines are recognized as the earliest Jews to settle on Martha’s Vineyard, but if Ken Libo’s research findings turn out...
In 1974, Universal Studios sent a new young director to the Island to make a movie about a big shark terrorizing a little town. The plan was to spend...
A 393-pound thresher shark was caught on Friday in waters south of the Vineyard. The fish, caught by Allen Bradley of Weatherfield Conn., was a...
Some 245 acres of land once planned for 148 houses in the rural perimeters of Edgartown were sold last week to a golf club development group, closing...