February is African American History Month, and in honor of that history Pathways Arts is holding a multimedia art show at its space in the Chilmark town center. Veteran Island artist Harry Seymour...
Johnny Osmers, Paul McDonald and Tim Sauer had been fishing from their 35-foot lobster boat Shearwater for less than an hour when they felt the bite. The Island fishermen had left their home berth...
An Edgartown businessman and massage therapist was arrested last week and charged with indecent assault and battery for alleged sexual assault on two different occasions. Sebastian M. Pattavina, 52...
Alex Finkelstein, along with his wife Amy and their two children Emma, 11, and Andrew, 9, hadn’t traveled more than a mile offshore from Menemsha toward Lobsterville on Monday morning when they...
It’s hard to hang up on someone in a satisfying way with a cell phone. That’s why Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage, has an old rotary phone at her house. But Ms. Jones isn...
Painter Margot Datz’s brain functions like dancing frogs. Her office work sneaks up on her like hungry mice. The industrious artist, whose show Party Animals opens for its annual one-night...
One immature bald eagle, five snowy owls, 22 great blue herons and a thick-billed murre. This was just part of the tally Friday for the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count, when hundreds of...
Some people spend years of their lives not knowing they need glasses. When they finally get them, the improved clarity of vision is profound. They can see things they didn’t know were even...
In generations past, ships traveling from Europe brought more than just their intended cargo to North America. In the straw that was used as packing material and animal bedding, the ships often...
In John Merrow’s new book, Addicted to Reform: A 12-Step Program to Rescue Public Education, the author describes what he sees as a society hooked on school reform—an addictive pattern of...
© 2022 Vineyard Gazette