Jane Kenyon
I am the stone step, the latch, and the working hinge. I am the heart contracted by joy, the longest hair, white before the rest.-Jane Kenyon
March 1, 2002
Officer Hospitalized After Auto Pursuit
It all started, police said, when 19-year-old Jonah Talbot rolled his car through the four-way stop near the fire station in Oak Bluffs. It ended up, after a six-minute police chase, at Five Corners in Vineyard Haven.
Swapping Mopeds for Liquor License: Businessman Makes Deal in Oak Bluffs
Here’s the trade. A moped dealer who controls two rental outlets in Oak Bluffs is offering to shut down one moped shop. In exchange, he wants town officials to hand him a liquor license and a sewer permit for a new restaurant near the harbor.
New Bedford Solicitor Quits
As New Bedford’s city solicitor for the last four years, George Leontire led his city’s fight for a Steamship Authority port and fast ferry service.
Checking Out: Volunteers Help Library’s Move
Checking Out: Volunteers Help Library’s Move
By ALEXIS TONTI
Libraries are by their nature organized spaces. Every book has its place: adult and children’s, reference, fiction and nonfiction. They are neatly shelved, alphabetized by author or sorted by the Dewey decimal system.
New Financial Pressures Hit Vineyard Businesses as Black Dog Retrenches
More Island businesses are feeling the impact of financial trouble at one of the Island’s biggest and most ambitious private enterprises, the Black Dog Tavern Inc., which is still trying to recover from a $2 million drop in revenues last year.
Editorial – Support for a Tradition of Caring
Steamship Authority Board Offers Top Job to Veteran of Marine Transport Company
By JULIA WELLS
In the end they decided to offer the job to the guy with the battered briefcase.
\”There\’s that case again,\” mused Falmouth Steamship Authority governor Galen Robbins as Fred C. Raskin set the scarred,…
Editorial – Goodbye to a Shady Deal
Steamship Authority Board Offers Top Job to Veteran of Marine Transport Company
By JULIA WELLS
In the end they decided to offer the job to the guy with the battered briefcase.
“There’s that case again,” mused Falmouth Steamship Authority governor Galen Robbins as Fred C. Raskin set the scarred,…
Cuttyhunk Fire Called Worst in 30 Years
Barbara Flynn Leaves; Office Closes
Caseworker Retires; State May Close Welfare Office
By MANDY LOCKE
Barbara Flynn leans closer – peering over her calico-framed glasses – and gives cat, Two-Face, another stroke before whispering, “I don’t know what they’re going to do.”
Only the large desk cluttered…
Barbara Flynn Leaves; Office Closes
Barbara Flynn Leaves; Office Closes
Caseworker Retires; State May Close Welfare Office
By MANDY LOCKE
Barbara Flynn leans closer – peering over her calico-framed glasses – and gives cat, Two-Face, another stroke before whispering, “I don’t know what they’re going to do.”
Only the large desk cluttered…
Youths Are Arrested in Home Break-in
Two Island youths were arraigned in Edgartown District Court on Monday and charged in connection with a mid-afternoon break-in last Friday at a Chilmark home. Jonathan Wild of Vineyard Haven, 17, and Owen White of West Tisbury, 19, both of them seniors at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, were apprehended by Chilmark police with…
