Jim Vercruysse
If there were never another fire in Aquinnah, deputy fire chief Jim Vercruysse would be happy. The prospect of firefighting is not what draws him...
barn house stone wall south road
The historic 17th century Barn House in Chilmark, famously home to an avant-garde communal colony of Vineyard artists, writers and intellectuals,...
Capt. Broderick fishing boat
Fresh fish is landed daily at Menemsha and much of it is being shipped to the mainland by Alec Gale. With his operation set up in what was once a...
Lobster traps raft seagull
Hurricane Irene is expected to pass west of Martha’s Vineyard this weekend, but Islanders still should be prepared for a very strong storm with...
Selectmen from three towns say they will push for changes to the Vineyard’s reverse 911 phone system, following complaints about its use by Oak...
Sean Flynn
A temporary flight restriction plan devised by Vineyard airport officials for President Obama’s summer vacation is being hailed as a model for...
Barack Obama Eric Whitaker POTUS golf cart
Faraway, tectonic plates clenched uneasily, brutal regimes held on tenuously and a hurricane gathered confidence, but on Martha’s Vineyard it was...
Temperature: Precip. Day Max. Min. Inches. Fº Fº August 19 82 69 Trace August 20 83 68 .00 August 21 82 68 .00 August 22 83 70 .13 August 23...
John Mayhew Shirley Mayhew
Special date: > After 64 years of marriage, John Mayhew called his bride and asked her to be his date for the 150th Annual Agricultural Fair....
The Milky Way is especially pretty this time of year. It appears overhead at about 10 p.m., splashed across the sky.
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The Vineyard will be a very different place in 100 years, notes Island naturalist Gus Ben David. The changes in his lifetime have been “phenomenal...
Back in the middle of the last decade, a round about was proposed for the Island’s key blinker intersection, where Barnes Road crosses the Edgartown...

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