This Week's Paper
The Martha's Vineyard Shellfish Group is undertaking a years-long project to determine why and how quahaugs develop purple on the inside of their shells — and why that purple may be disappearing from the Vineyard’s waters.
5:22 pm, July 9, 2026
Looking up through the rear-view mirror and in my best William Shatner voice, I announced to 43 unsuspecting people: “Martha’s Vineyard, the final frontier, this is the voyage of the blue bus."
5:11 pm, July 9, 2026
Long-simmering tensions over the future of retail shopping in downtown Edgartown boiled over this week after an Amazon subsidiary applied to host a pop-up event later this month.
5:10 pm, July 9, 2026
For those of us on Martha’s Vineyard, it can sometimes feel as though alpha-gal syndrome is uniquely our problem.
5:09 pm, July 9, 2026
On Tuesday June 9, the Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group celebrated our 50th Clamiversary with a community party at the Grange Hall.
5:08 pm, July 9, 2026
My cousin almost died this year at the annual Run the Chop Challenge in West Chop, an iconic Fourth of July tradition in our family.
5:07 pm, July 9, 2026
Oak Bluffs will soon be able to tap into a new funding source to help pay for wastewater projects after voting this week to become the first Island town to opt into the Cape Cod and Islands Water Protection Fund.
4:47 pm, July 9, 2026
With the help of a relay team, Doug McConnell will once again attempt a charity swim across the Muskeget Channel between Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard.
4:38 pm, July 9, 2026
In the photograph accompanying Lynne Irons garden column on July 3 there was mention made that this wall is an example of a “lace wall.”
3:43 pm, July 9, 2026