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Stories by Heather Hamacek

Baby Avery Rings in New Year

January 3, 2017
Heather Hamacek

Lauren and Jim Steiner of Oak Bluffs welcomed Avery Brenda Steiner 38 seconds after midnight on Sunday. Avery is the first baby of the New Year on the Cape and possibly the entire state. Born at the...

Happy New Year, Time to Party Like It's 2017

December 28, 2016
Heather Hamacek

Time for the resolutions. Cut back on the clam chowder, walk every single one of the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank trails, read every book by a Vineyard author in the library, the list goes on....

Tisbury Wants to Save Pear Trees

December 22, 2016
Heather Hamacek

Tisbury selectmen this week advocated for ornamental pear trees on a village lane, heard an update on the Beach Road improvement project and said they would formally object to the recent round of...

Up-Island School Budget Debated

December 22, 2016
Heather Hamacek

With an $11.5 million draft budget for the coming fiscal year on the table for discussion this week, up-Island school committee members lightly sparred over cost allocation, an ongoing issue in the...

Plastic Bag Ban Arrives in the New Year

December 22, 2016
Heather Hamacek

Many of the shoppers in downtown Vineyard Haven on Sunday sported the same bags. They hadn’t all been to the same shop, but had all stopped by the same booth. Tucked under the eaves of the...

Midnight Farm Says Goodbye After Twenty Years

December 16, 2016
Heather Hamacek

After 20 years in downtown Vineyard Haven, Midnight Farm will close its doors for good on Dec. 31. The upscale boutique owned by Tamara Weiss opened in 1996, steps away from Main street on Cromwell...

For Emma Young, Mood Is the Muse

December 15, 2016
Heather Hamacek

Emma Young’s precisely detailed poetry is born from broad feelings. Her poems come from the specific softness of summer dusk, from the heartbreaking tenderness of a home town, from the porous...

Island Angels Revive Handel's Messiah

December 14, 2016
Heather Hamacek

Handel’s Messiah has risen again on the Island and will be performed for the first time in over a decade on Saturday, Dec. 17 at 8 p.m. in the Old Whaling Church.Organized by the Grace...

Featherstone Breaks Ground on Expansion

December 14, 2016
Heather Hamacek

There were 29 shovels on hand at a groundbreaking Tuesday at Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs. The day was cold and the ground hard but members of the Featherstone community — the...

Tax Rates See Slight Drop in Two Towns

December 13, 2016
Heather Hamacek

Tisbury and West Tisbury have both approved their tax rates for the year. West Tisbury selectmen recently approved a single tax rate of $5.97 a slight decrease from last year’s rate of $6.06...

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