We had been living in Wilmington, N.C, for 15 years when we decided to move back north, trading my husband’s southerly clime for my northerly one.
Capt. Bernardino (Didino) Ramos is one of 30 people who captain those 10 gleaming white vessels, the year-round lifeline to the two Islands.
During April 2022, while we were all focused on passing the housing bank in our towns, stories appeared in the local newspapers announcing that the...
Lagoon Pond at Vineyard Haven was originally called the harbor of Homes Hole — the old name for the town and port.
As Nancy Slonim Aronie, founder of the Chilmark Writing Workshop (and author of Writing from the Heart), writes in her new book Memoir as Medicine,...
Island church bells will ring every day next week at noon, reminding us that we are facing a climate crisis and ringing out a call to action.
As a recently retired, Oak Bluffs-born and raised community banker since the age of 15, I am keenly aware of the trajectory of our housing crisis.
The housing bank is the issue of this year.
I would like to share my thoughts and support for the proposed housing bank article, which will be on all Island town warrants this spring.
From the Oct. 2, 1942 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:
Although the Vineyard joined with New Bedford in mourning the departure of the old whaleship Charles W. Morgan from Round Hills to her new and probably permanent berth at Mystic, Conn., the present aspect of the ancient ship should serve to cheer both places in view of the splendid job that has been done in securing her, and in the promising start that has been made toward her restoration.
