Ending a Quick Search, School District Names Interim Principals for Year Ahead

Ending a Quick Search, School District Names Interim Principals for Year Ahead

By CHRIS BURRELL

Three consecutive days of interviews this week yielded two new principals up-Island: Michael Halt will take over at the West Tisbury School, and Diane Gandy becomes principal at the Chilmark School.

Mr. Halt, 39,…

The Salvor: In Menemsha, Lynn Murphy Marks 50 Years

Lynn C. Murphy has reason to celebrate this Labor Day weekend. He has marked a business anniversary few single proprietors ever reach: He has operated Menemsha Marine Repair for half a century now.

One More Round for Roundabout

They decided almost three years ago that replacing a yellow blinker beacon with a roundabout was the safest solution for a notoriously dangerous intersection, but just weeks before hiring an engineer to design it, Oak Bluffs selectmen are thinking it over – one more time.

Labor Day’s Departures Remind Us of the Pleasures That Attracted Them

Labor Day’s Departures Remind Us of the Pleasures that Attracted Them

By C.K. WOLFSON

It’s an Us and Them question: How was your Vineyard summer?

For most of the working Us, it’s an anthem of impatience, of too slow, too long lines and cars. It is a fast tempo fugue…

This Season, Behind the Retail Counter, Multiple Languages (and Some Confusion)

This Season, Behind the Retail Counter, Multiple Languages (and Some Confusion)

By CHRIS BURRELL

Rafata Jabri, a Jordanian-born pastry chef in Oak Bluffs, knows all about turning flour, butter, sugar and eggs into delectable treats, but some other ingredients in the bakery are driving him a little crazy – a polyglot…