flotus plane
President Obama arrived on the Vineyard early Thursday evening to begin a 10-day vacation with his family, marking his third consecutive August...
Lambert’s Cove Beach is open, West Tisbury town administrator Jen Rand reports, after clean tests on yesterday’s water samples. Seth’s Pond remains...
The First Family returns to the Vineyard today. Please send your photos, sightings and stories about the presidential visit to news@mvgazette.com and...
“What do you think of this, Olga?” asked a woman, holding out a black and white photograph. Olga Hirshhorn sat in a canvas director’s chair with...
cartoon weaving
I have mixed feelings about going to the Agricultural Fair. This has nothing to do with the fair itself, which at 150-years-old has aged...
ride ag fair 1969
The smell of hay and cotton candy, the lowing of cows, the dusty August air blowing through barn doors, ruffling your hair. The scratching of a...
sketch of cattle
Editor’s Note: The following story was published in the Gazette in August 1961 on the occasion of the fair centennial. BY JOSEPH CHASE ALLEN
Ralph Bologna
Each week the folks at Cinema Circus show a series of short films on Wednesday evenings at the Chilmark Community Center. The films begin at 6 p.m...
Mr. Wolfe and Mr. Shipman
As playwright, theatre and film director George C. Wolfe tells it, the event which first motivated him toward the arts was the same one that led...
fashion show cartoon
Angel Flight Northeast is one of the unsung heroes of Island life: a group of pilots who offer free transport to people needing access to medical...
Chilmark road race start
Wearing a bright orange top and neon green running shoes, David Melly was easy to spot along Middle Road on Saturday morning. Then again, it wouldn...
A title dispute between the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation and two Vineyard residents, both sides believing they own the same piece of property in...

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