Feeling Heat, VTA Board Agrees to Send TCI Back to Negotiating Table

A divided VTA board decided Wednesday after heated public testimony to send their subcontracted hiring company back to the negotiating table.

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Fifty Years Later, Chappaquiddick Still Reverberates

On July 18, 1969, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy arrived on Martha’s Vineyard to sail in the 43rd annual Edgartown Yacht Club regatta. It was a day the world would remember forever. But not because of the sailing race.

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Land Court Ruling Clears Way for Stop & Shop Expansion

A state land court judge has denied repeated claims from attorney and abutter Benjamin Hall Jr. that shadows and noise from the development would adversely affect his property.

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MVC Allows Verizon to Increase Tower Height

Five public hearings and one controversial tree survey later, the Martha’s Vineyard Commission has voted to approve a 53-foot height increase to the Verizon tower in Vineyard Haven.

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As VTA Strike Continues, Focus Shifts to Advisory Board

The current status and powers of of the Vineyard Transit Authority’s advisory board has come into question as the full-time drivers’ strike enters a third week.

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Conservation Commission Denies Cable for Vineyard Wind

Developers who plan to build the nation’s first industrial-scale offshore wind farm south of Martha’s Vineyard saw their first major setback this week.

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Edgartown Representative to the VTA Board Abruptly Resigns

In a brief letter sent to the selectmen, Louis Paciello cited a lack of time for the position and other family commitments as the reason.

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Pete Buttigieg Brings His Campaign Message to Martha's Vineyard

The Democratic presidential candidate and mayor of South Bend, Ind., came to the Vineyard Saturday as part of a campaign fundraising tour through the Northeast.

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Mayor Pete Shows Solidarity With Striking VTA Drivers

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg met with striking VTA drivers before a fundraising event at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School Saturday.

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At 85, Historian David McCullough Is a Pioneer In His Own Right

A man, 85 years old with far more than a century of stories to tell, walked toward a small shed behind his humble, white-shingled house on Music street. David McCullough had another story to tell.

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