Always Up to Code: Alan Fortes Reflects on Career in Plumbing

In a garage-top office near the Tisbury School, as a small group of tradesmen prepared their morning coffee, Alan P. Fortes reflected on a lifetime in the plumbing business.

MVRHS Students Explore Inquiry-Based Art in Oak Bluffs Show

The show at the Oak Bluffs Library offers a rare glimpse of what’s on the minds of five Island teenagers enrolled in the high school's Advanced Placement art course.

Lost to the Breach, Wacks Home Comes Down

The Chappaquiddick summer home owned by Sue and Jerry Wacks that has been severely threatened by the recent breach along Norton Point was demolished over the weekend.

Tisbury Weighs Proposal to Allow Affordable Housing on Private Roads

A proposed zoning amendment to allow affordable housing projects on private roads in Tisbury with a special permit has split the town’s planning board.

MV DEMS Elect New Leaders

Jonathan Chatinover was elected chair of the council, known to most as the MV DEMs. Beth O’Connor was elected vice chair.

Town and Trust Settle Grange Hall Dustup

A dispute over events held at the Vineyard Preservation Trust’s Grange Hall ended Thursday when the West Tisbury zoning board of appeals granted a special permit to the nonprofit.

Choose Your Color for Featherstone Show

Featherstone Center for the Arts invites artists to submit works for its upcoming exhibit, An Abundance of Color.

Venus and Jupiter

The two brightest planets, Jupiter and Venus, appear close together on the evening of Wednesday, March 1. You'll see the two low in the southwestern sky right after sunset. In this conjunction the two are only a half a degree apart. To most observers the two will look as one bright object, as bright as an airplane approaching the runway with its landing lights on.

Moon and Mars

Edgartown Puts Forward New Plan for Norton Point

The Edgartown parks department has unveiled its draft beach management plan for the two-mile strip of shorefront at Norton Point.

Clearing the Way for Frost Bottom Preservation

Along the Edgartown-West Tisbury Road just past Bluebird Way near the airport there is an extra chill in the air, the cause of which dates back to the ice age.

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