Memorial Day weekend has arrived on Martha’s Vineyard, bringing with it a mix of uncertainty and optimism as Islanders navigate the shifting political and economic climates.
Owners Molly and Eric Glasgow announced last week that they will pause operations in the fall. The couple plans to continue to farming, but they doubt they will continue to sell cheese.
The new court, aimed to help address the underlying addiction that often drives people into the criminal justice system, applauded its first four graduates this week.
The final annual town meeting of the season will take place in Aquinnah on Tuesday, where voters will decide on dedicating more than $500,000 to improving municipal infrastructure and town-owned properties.
A plan to cut 175 acres of white pine in the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest drew significant opposition — along with some support — from the Island community during a recent public comment period, according to a review of more than 100 comments obtained by the Gazette.
At the break of dawn on Saturday, five-year-old Aurora Lapierre reeled in a 14-inch trout at Duarte’s Pond using her rainbow striped pole and worms she had named Wormy and Squirmy.
Next Level Chef contestant Ryan Scanlon, who first discovered his passion for cooking as a teenager at Alchemy in Edgartown, was eliminated from the reality cooking show on Thursday, but got commendations from the judges.