Thomas Humphrey

Chilmark Sends Dock Funding to Voters

The next step for the ongoing Menemsha commercial dock replacement will be a special town meeting on Monday, Sept. 26, aiming to appropriate $44,000 in town funding.

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West Tisbury Grapples With Grange Permitting Dispute, Administrative Confusion

A West Tisbury woman's quest to auction off her late husband's fishing gear became tangled in an ongoing dispute between the town and the Vineyard Preservation Trust.

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Aquinnah Baby Delivered Ahead of Ambulance with Dispatch Assistance

Aquinnah's newest resident was delivered at 11:48 p.m. on Sept. 1 as his parents Kyle Colter and Sophia Welch were on the phone with emergency dispatch.

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West Tisbury Renews Focus on Howes House

The West Tisbury select board opened the floor this week to residents with varying ideas for the use of Howes House, now home to the Up-Island Council on Aging, which is slated for an $8 million renovation.

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Back to Reality

The display of pulleys and levers was stripped bare. The ground was muddy. The fair was over.

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Tom Turner, Island Sawyer

A professional fisherman of five decades, Tom Turner has also run one of the Island’s only sawmills for the last 15 years. During that time, he has processed nearly every kind of tree that grows here, native and not, common and exotic.

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Pandemic Lingers in Background of Peak Summer Season

Despite lower infection rates and fewer severe cases, the Covid pandemic has remained a thorn in the side of Island organizers.

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Walter Wlodyka: Apex Predator for Island Skunk Population

Walter Wlodyka, the Island's skunk man, knows how to make an entrance.

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At the Fair

Before this Friday, I had never been to the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Fair.

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Medalist Gives Lesson, Olympian Perspective to Island Skaters

At her lesson with the Martha's Vineyard Figure Skating Club on August 22, Olympic bronze medalist Ashley Wagner began by breaking the tension, and the ice.

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