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Special town meetings are supposed to be tame housekeeping
affairs, but Thursday's session in Oak Bluffs will steer voters
into some dicey territory...
State Forest Gets Help
By JOSHUA SABATINI
The Department of Environmental Management's Division of
Forests and Parks has begun to implement a new...
SSA Hears from Public
By JULIA WELLS
Invite more public participation. That was the message to
the Steamship Authority board of governors last...
Pneumonic tularemia is back. Confirming this year's first case of the pneumonic form of the disease, public health officials said yesterday they are...
Gus Ben David, director of Massachusetts Audubon's Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary in Edgartown, takes a four-wheel-drive vehicle out into the field by...
The Vineyard's summer rental market is soft this season.
How low the market has slumped, reasons for the dip and long-term projections have yet to be...
Playhouse Launches Campaign
By MANDY LOCKE
The home of the Vineyard Playhouse stood strong through
nearly two centuries of Vineyard life. Leaders...
Casey Sharpe, the executive secretary in Oak Bluffs, has
announced she will resign her position effective Sept. 30,
leaving selectmen to search for...
Clash Over Fast Ferries
By JULIA WELLS
Steamship Authority leaders clashed openly yesterday over
whether to develop multi-million-dollar high-...
Summer of Public Transit
By MANDY LOCKE
The Vineyard Transit Authority is dedicated to making it
easy to leave the car at home and ride the bus...
Leaching nitrogen from residential households remains the
single biggest threat to the water quality of Lagoon Pond,
according to a recently...
Senior managers at the Steamship Authority knew months in
advance that the starboard engine on the New Bedford passenger
ferry Schamonchi was...