This Week's Paper
The Vineyard has been treated to a second summer this month, with warm, clear days stretching on as if they might have no end, inviting long beach walks and swims.
5:38 pm, September 19, 2019
Jessie Benton’s comfortable summer home in Chilmark was just a shack on a windy hill when her parents, the painters Thomas Hart Benton and Rita Piacenza, bought it in 1923.
5:33 pm, September 19, 2019
Wedding season is in full swing on Martha's Vineyard.
5:30 pm, September 19, 2019
Five days into the 74th annual Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby, all over the Island fishermen are hauling their packs of tackle along the shoreline or heading out in boats.
5:15 pm, September 19, 2019
Sam Sifton, food editor and columnist for The New York Times, will take the stage at 2 p.m. on Oct. 24 as part of a long weekend of culinary events known as the Martha’s Vineyard Food & Wine Festival.
4:31 pm, September 19, 2019
The Steamship Authority aired a preliminary plan this week to raise rates in 2020 to cover increased expenses resulting from last year’s comprehensive review of operations by outside consultants.
4:23 pm, September 19, 2019
At a special town meeting next month, Tisbury voters will be asked to approve emergency funding for temporary classrooms and other unforeseen expenses.
4:10 pm, September 19, 2019
For 18 years, Jo Ann Murphy has proudly served the Island’s community of over 300 veterans. At the end of September, Ms. Murphy will step down as director of veterans services.
2:59 pm, September 19, 2019
Two years ago five Oak Bluffs police officer families gave birth to five babies in five months.
2:57 pm, September 19, 2019