Fishermen's Preservation Trust Receives Flash Freezer Grant

The Martha’s Vineyard Fishermen’s Preservation Trust will be upgrading their infrastructure for the 2023 season, thanks to a $20,000 grant from the Martha’s Vineyard Bank to purchase a flash freezer.

It's All in the Family at Catboat Coffee

Catboat Coffee, which recently opened in the Tisbury Marketplace, is a true family business, utilizing the skills of five family members with specialities ranging from cheese and coffee to Lebanese food.

Spring Calls Forth a Mill Pond Meander

Spring, of course, arrived last week. In West Tisbury, daffodils heralded it by blooming in Ann Burt’s yard.

Film Festival Lifts Up the Communal Power of Cinema

For five days the heart of West Tisbury was transformed into a movable feast of cinema for the 23rd annual Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival.

Charter School Students Embrace International Baccalaureate Program

Nearly two years after implementing the International Baccalaureate curriculum, the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School is preparing its first cohort of students to graduate from the prestigious program.

Opening Night Documentary Sets the Tone for Film Festival

The 23rd Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival opened Wednesday evening at the Grange Hall with Waiting to Continue: The Venezuelan Asylum Seekers on Martha’s Vineyard. The festival continues through Sunday.

Springtime Crescent Moon

Tonight's crescent moon has a feature we all associate with spring. The cusps are evenly placed in distance from the horizon. It looks like the moon is a bowl and it can hold water. An artist, an illustrator, can draw a picture of the moon holding water. This only happens in the evening at spring time here on Martha's Vineyard.

Tonight's crescent moon appears above the brilliant planet Venus. Both are in the zodiacal constellation Aries. The moon is moving into the zodiacal constellation Taurus where it will be for the rest of the weekend.

Bank Robbery Suspects Plead Not Guilty at Federal Arraignment

After being indicted by a federal grand jury last week, three men pleaded not guilty Friday to charges connected to the armed robbery of the Tisbury Rockland Trust Bank in November.

Islanders Take Housing Bank Case at State House

Vineyarders mobilized by the Coalition to Create the Martha’s Vineyard Housing Bank had one mission on Thursday in Boston: to encourage legislators to pass the Island housing bank bill.

Common Good

The principle that citizens have the right to know what their leaders are doing is the idea behind Sunshine Week, which each year at this time celebrates laws that promote openness in government.

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