This school year, students in Melissa McNickles' second and third grade class have started reading to Molly, a great Pyrenees mix, to practice reading aloud.
Tisbury’s board of health is extending a pilot program that permits restaurants to apply for a variance allowing dogs to join their owners in outside seating areas.
The Dukes County Commission Wednesday approved Edgartown’s request to allow dogs on parts of the beach free of shorebirds as long as they are on a leash or lead.
In order to welcome customers with dogs, restaurants and coffee shops with outdoor seating must apply for the town’s new “Dog Friendly Spaces” variance and follow guidelines the board of health approved last week.
Tisbury police said they responded to the power line trails behind the department of public works building on Wednesday morning after the owner of an Australian shepherd said his dog had been stabbed with a knife by another dog walker.
For more than three decades, Kirsten Sauter has been there for Vineyard pet owners. But last week, Dr. Sauter told her clients that she plans to retire and close her practice in April.
Not long ago I spent a few days sorting through a large box which had resided in the attic for the last quarter century, since I became a Vineyard washashore in 1997.
