Julia Rappaport

In These Dark Times, Being Kind Can Be an Act of Protest

On election night, I refused to read the news or look at my phone. I put everything on Do Not Disturb and went to sleep.

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Honoring a Life Spent in Service to the Island

In the depths of sorrow, gratitude is one of the hardest things to cultivate.

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So Much More Than a Meal

There are only so many topics you can cover at dinnertime when you’re spending all day with the same person.

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There's No Place Like Home

When the news began getting overwhelmed with stories of Covid-19, and the anxieties mounted, I lost my ability to read.

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Farm to Page

Julia Rappaport

Writing about food, which I’ve done now for just a few months shy of a decade, was never something I set out to do. And, especially at the beginning of my career, it was anything but trendy or glitzy. It was dirty, gritty, and messy – at times quite literally.

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Dry January

Julia Rappaport

It was after spending the holidays back home on the Island that I made the decision to tackle Dry January: an aptly-named, specialty cleanse in which one gives up booze for 31 days at the start of the new year.

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A Terrifying Hit, A Newfound Sense of Home

Vineyard roots run strong and deep and I never have imagined calling anywhere else on earth home. I grew up on the Island, but plenty of people grow up plenty of places. They move, they call other cities, other towns their own. What has always rooted me to Martha’s Vineyard is what roots so many people here — a community with a heart much larger than the Island’s 100 square miles would suggest.

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More Mixed Greens Please

Tomorrow, students at the Edgartown School will have a choice at lunchtime: chicken salad sandwich or peanut butter and jelly. And on Thursday, they will have another choice: tossed green salad or a salad of mozzarella cheese and tomato.

Chicken or peanut butter, tossed or tomato salad, may not seem like a weighty decision, but for Edgartown students the choice will also be an opportunity to choose locally-grown, fresh food over a meal made from imported ingredients.

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Edgartown Awards Affordable Houses

BY JULIA RAPPAPORT

A 2003 graduate of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School who works as a dispatcher for the county sheriff’s department was one of three lucky Islanders who won an affordable Edgartown home in a town lottery this week.

“I’m too shocked to think,” said a teary Maria Williams following the drawing held by Edgartown selectmen in the Baylies Room at the Old Whaling Church on Tuesday.

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Schools Superintendent Pledges No Increase in Budget This Year

MCAS test results, budget concerns, professional development and student enrollment were all topics for discussion at the first all-Island school committee meeting of the new school year.

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