The handling of the Sankaty incident this summer has fractured the Steamship Authority’s generally unanimous board of governors, who took opposing positions at their regular meeting Tuesday morning in Falmouth.
Years after it became the Island’s first state-designated cultural district, the Vineyard Haven Harbor Cultural District is relaunching as a newly-minted nonprofit led by artists working in the town.
The All-Island school committee is grappling with a steep increase in the cost of services that the superintendent’s office provides to students across the Vineyard, particularly in the areas of special education and staffing.
The Dukes County Commission took the rare step Friday of appealing to the full governing board of the Steamship Authority, calling events surrounding the incident in which the Sankaty slipped from its mooring this summer “extremely disturbing.”
Camp Jabberwocky is once again looking for an executive director after the resignation of Adam Perry, who was hired earlier this year to replace former director Liza Gallagher.
Attorneys for the town of Oak Bluffs and the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School committee made their final arguments Friday morning before state land court judge Kevin Smith in the dispute over a planned artificial turf field at the school.
Nonprofit leaders and volunteers from across Martha's Vineyard gathered at the Grange Hall in West Tisbury Wednesday night as the Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation handed out more than $400,000 in grants.
In a talk Tuesday night called Phantom Neighborhoods: Failed Real Estate Developments on Martha's Vineyard, historian Bow Van Riper of Martha's Vineyard Museum took his audience back to the Island's early years as a summer destination.
The Steamship Authority’s governing board never saw the results of an internal investigation into the M/V Sankaty incident of July 27 until they were released to the press this week, board member James Malkin told the Gazette.
