State legislators and farm advocates gathered at the second annual meeting of the Martha’s Vineyard Farm Bureau Monday to voice their agricultural concerns and hear about current farm-focused initiatives at the statehouse.
Several municipal heating, ventilation and air conditioning projects on the Island that have ballooned in price recently, driven up as towns look to replace aging equipment but have no on-Island specialists to carry out such large jobs.
Six generations have passed since the first volume of the Eldridge Tide and Pilot Book, and the Eldridge family is still at the helm, currently working on the 150th edition.
A program incentivizing West Tisbury residents to build affordable housing on their property will not appear before voters at the upcoming town meeting.
The West Tisbury select board voted March 8 to remove the program from the town meeting warrant. Citing concerns from the town manager and town attorney, the board considered documents provided by the town’s affordable housing committee for the program to be incomplete.
The schooner Amistad, a replica of the historic ship that became famous after a group of enslaved Africans led a successful revolt and won their freedom in the U.S. Supreme Court, will drop anchor at Martha’s Vineyard for Juneteenth weekend.
When it comes to Vineyard history, up-Island mariner and antiquarian bookseller Virginia Jones pulls no punches. Since 2014, she has spent her days holding court at her Menemsha bookstore.
In a garage-top office near the Tisbury School, as a small group of tradesmen prepared their morning coffee, Alan P. Fortes reflected on a lifetime in the plumbing business.
A dispute over events held at the Vineyard Preservation Trust’s Grange Hall ended Thursday when the West Tisbury zoning board of appeals granted a special permit to the nonprofit.
The relocation of the WHOI Pioneer Array from Vineyard waters to North Carolina signals the end of an era for the high-tech system, one of five active stations in the National Science Foundation’s Ocean Observatories Initiative.
