Thomas Humphrey

Historic Erford Burt Building Gets a New Lease on Life

After seven decades on Lagoon Pond Road, the Erford Burt house was moved last week in a bid to preserve and restore the historic building.

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Howes House Project in Holding Pattern

Plans to renovate the Howes House in West Tisbury are on-hold indefinitely as the town select board reckons with policy violations on the Up-Island Council on Aging, the intermunicipal body headquartered there.

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Chilmark Looks to Stem the Pickleball Tide

The resounding thwacking of a pickleball against a paddle may be silenced by municipal regulation in Chilmark, at least for now, after the town planning board moved to enact a moratorium on building new pickleball courts at their meeting on Monday.

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Aquinnah Powwow Brings Many Nations Together

A plume of smoke curled against the backdrop of the rolling waves on Aquinnah’s south shore this weekend, as members of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) and native peoples from across the east coast gathered for the annual Aquinnah Powwow.

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Farm and Field: Autumnal Whisperings

It feels a bit wrong, in the sultry September days that have so far graced the Island, to write about the changing of the seasons.

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Missing Teen Safe After Search

Alex Heintz, 16, was reported missing after he left his Falmouth home and took a ferry to Vineyard Haven Tuesday morning.

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Putting the Emphasis on the Local Level to Address Climate Change

A team from the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Woods Hole recently completed a Martha’s Vineyard climate risk assessment, looking at how a two-degree increase in global temperatures could impact several climatic factors on-Island.

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Tree-Wrecking Beetle Found in State Forest

State conservation officials have made plans to cut down a stand of pest-ridden pine trees in the northwestern section of the Manuel F. Correllus state forest, after finding an infestation of the southern pine beetle earlier this summer.

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In Vain Search of Melons

I had come in search of melons and had no idea if I would find them.

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Connecting Art and Ancient Tools

Duncan Caldwell, an Aquinnah summer resident and a researcher, gave a talk at the Chilmark Library last week, connecting the work of René Magritte to the artistry of a much earlier era.

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