Oak Bluffs is working to recover payments owed to the town for parking mitigation following the discovery of lapse in collections for the account.

A town bylaw in effect since 2004 allows B1 businesses to pay into an account in lieu of providing the required off-street parking spaces for their customers.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $156,941.82 for the business week ending on Friday, July, 4, 2014. The land bank receives its funds from a two per cent fee charged on many Vineyard real estate transactions.

Tisbury’s 343rd birthday party was a hit for all those invited, and that included the whole Island.

Flip through the events calendar. Throw a dart at any day, Wednesday, perhaps.

In the morning at the Yard in Chilmark, Jason Samuels Smith, perhaps the best tap dancer in the world right now, was giving an instruction in his art form. Later that night he performed with the Owen (Fiidla) Brown Quartet. Via his feet and the quartet’s music, the group took the audience to Africa, the horrors of the Middle Passage and the arrival as slaves in America.

This weekend will mark the final five performances of the world premiere of The Whaleship Essex at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse on Church street in Vineyard Haven. These performances will represent a number of remarkable things, and not just for the playwright Joe Forbrich, myself and this wonderful cast made up of a mix of theatre professionals from New York and across New England as well as a few usual suspects from the Vineyard Playhouse of the past.

Lean and mean how Walter comes across Cash no credit That’s how they run the place

A few years ago, I checked the voicemail on my cell phone and heard the following message start like this:

Hi Chris, it’s Ken. I am out here in the middle of Sunset Lake, treading water.

Reading the Gazette is usually a fun, relaxing and informative experience for me. But today we find a letter from Nick van Nes who suggests that the tragedy of 9/11 was a government conspiracy. I had to read his comments four times to make sure I was actually comprehending his accusations. “One doesn’t have to be a demolition expert to realize that blatant, undisputed evidence of controlled demolitions was overlooked by the government in its official account of 9/11.” Controlled demolitions? Really?

Now that Bad Martha’s Brewery has opened on-Island, how long will it be before we see other iterations and takeoffs of Mad Martha’s? I predict that within a few years we may very well see the following:

This letter is directed to your readers who may be cruising in Edgartown harbor this summer and wondering what has happened to the iconic flag that flew in front of Walter Cronkite’s home for as long as many of us can remember. Sadly, the flagpole met its demise when it tangled with tropical storm Arthur in the wee hours of Saturday morning. We were very fortunate that it missed the house by only a few feet. The pole was so large and heavy, almost 40 feet long and as big around as a telephone pole, it had to be cut and carried away.