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
September 19, 2006
Town Selectmen Release Executive Session Record
The Oak Bluffs selectmen have released the minutes of a May 9 executive session during which the board voted to terminate town administrator Casey Sharpe without cause, triggering a clause in her contract to pay her more than $76,000 in salary, sick time and vacation pay. After leaving her post July 15, Ms. Sharpe received…
Last Year’s Winner Takes Lead in Bass Derby
Last Year’s Winner Takes Lead in Bass Derby
By MAX HART
Like the great Yankee catcher Yogi Berra once said, it was deja vu all over again.
Running Vineyard Prevails in Home Opener
The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School football team dominated Carver High School by a score of 44 to 25 in Friday’s home opener that featured a spectacular interception return, two dramatic goal line stands and a steady dose of scoring by the home team, both on the ground and through the air.
The…
Couple Comes to Happy Ending in Cautionary Immigration Tale
After six months of waiting, $900 in application fees, one lost job offer, thousands of dollars in lost salary and untold emotional strain, a Martha’s Vineyard immigration story ended happily last week. If there is a moral to the tale, it is that the Department of Homeland Security is a bureaucracy as easy to navigate…
Difficult Issues Confront MVC
Difficult Issues Confront MVC
Regional Land Use Commission Searches for Fresh Approach to Regulate Trophy Houses, Protect Neighborhoods
By IAN FEIN
Following back-to-back Martha’s Vineyard Commission meetings that centered on the impacts that out-of-scale homes can pose on their neighbors and the rest of the Island, leaders in the…
Victim in Theft, British Library Pushes for Tougher Sentence
Victim in Theft, British Library Pushes for Tougher Sentence
By JAMES KINSELLA
The British Library, one of the institutions victimized by rare-map thief E. Forbes Smiley 3rd of Chilmark, has urged the court to increase the severity of his pending sentence.
The library, whose 1520 Apian world map was…
