It started like any other year for the Vineyard’s thriving arts scene, with a quiet, recuperative January as a promising 2020 unfolded. Two months later the coronavirus hammer came down.
At the performing arts center, there would have been standing ovations. Instead, applause came in the form of blaring car horns for the regional high school production of It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play.
The owners of the Lambert’s Cove Inn told the West Tisbury selectmen this week that it’s unclear the virus was transmitted while the October wedding party was at the inn.
The regional high school theatre department is presenting It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play at the drive-in this weekend and on WMVY in the coming weeks.
Steamship Authority general manager Robert Davis has again received high marks from the boat line board of governors, in his third annual review since taking the top job in 2017.
Vineyard public schools, a fledgling nonprofit that owns the schooner Shenandoah and the Island Autism Group all received major grants in a ceremony held by Zoom Monday.
The traditional lighting of the Edgartown Lighthouse took place Friday evening on a windless, starry night. Christmas in Edgartown is absent the throngs of people this year, but downtown shops are open and the seaside town is decked out for the holiday.
One month after both Vineyard representatives to the Steamship Authority port council said they would step down, the two port towns named new members to the advisory body.
A property fronting James Pond and Vineyard Sound is the latest purchase by the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank in what is shaping up to be an active year for the public conservation organization.
Five years after a community campaign raised more than $1 million to renovate and reopen the Capawock and Strand, the two historic movie houses are without tenants again.
