Funding Cuts Complicate Already Challenging Census

Faced with sharply reduced federal funding for outreach efforts, Island leaders and organizations on Martha’s Vineyard are scrambling to prepare for the 2020 census.

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A Career of the Heart, 50 Years of Community Service

In the late 1960s Tom Bennett was a Vineyard kid adrift in Europe, lying in his sick bed at a hospital in Amsterdam.

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DeSorcy Family Puts Waterfront Property on Market Again

A prime stretch of Vineyard Haven working waterfront is now on the market as four separate parcels for a total of $7.3 million.

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Edgartown Selectmen Look to Green Opportunities

Edgartown was feeling green — with environmentalism, not envy — on Tuesday.

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Edgartown Signs Land Swap Agreement With Boys and Girls Club

Selectmen voted Friday to sign a memorandum of understanding with the Boys and Girls Club related to the planned purchase of 21 acres off the Edgartown-West Tisbury Road.

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Stranded, Happily, on Music Island

It starts quietly. A few flannel-clad regulars sitting at the bar, sipping on whatever suits their fancy, which, despite it being called the Ritz, is never fancy.

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Town, Trustees Clash Over Use of Katama Farm

Tensions over the use of Katama Farm by the Trustees of Reservations came to a head before the Edgartown conservation commission this week.

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Happy Birthday, Vineyard House

Five years later, the nonprofit’s new campus in Vineyard Haven is not only a centralized sober living facility, but a gathering place for the recovery community, too.

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Delays at Federal Level Plague Vineyard Wind

Prolonged permitting delays by the Trump administration have thrown Vineyard Wind’s $2.8 billion wind farm south of Martha’s Vineyard further into flux.

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Fire Chief Compensation Package Released

Former Oak Bluffs fire and EMS chief John Rose will receive around $100,000 in a retirement package that includes a lump-sum payout and other perks.

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