The Island has now gone a full week without recording any new positive laboratory coronavirus tests, according to a demographic report from the Island boards of health that came out Friday.
A person who went crabbing in Chilmark Pond was sickened by what appears to be a neurotoxin from blue/green algae blooms in the water, according to Chilmark health officials.
Fifty-six years after sailing into the Vineyard Haven harbor for the first time, Shenandoah — the one-of-a-kind, square-rigged topsail schooner — is going to have new owners. Capt Robert Douglas will donate the vessel.
The Steamship Authority announced another slate of complicated schedule updates on Wednesday, adding back trips that were previously cancelled and reopening its reservation system for Labor Day weekend. Test results on approximately 30 contact-traced employees are still pending.
In an unusual state primary Tuesday, Martha’s Vineyard voters strong backed Democratic incumbent Sen. Edward Markey and Republican attorney Kevin O’Connor over their challengers.
A slow dribble of Island voters — readied with masks, hand sanitizer and yoga mats — headed to the polls Tuesday for the state primary election, with tight races for the junior senate seat topping both sides of the ballot. Polls are open from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. at stations across the Island.
Two Steamship Authority employees have now tested positive for Covid-19 in as many days — including one who worked a Vineyard route — prompting the boat line to cancel trips and make other schedule changes beginning this week, as well as institute mass testing among employees and temporarily close reservations.
A third Steamship Authority employee in the past four days has tested positive for Covid-19, causing reverberations throughout the entire ferry service.
