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Friday, February 3, 2012

The next episode of that reality TV show known as The GOP Bumper-Car Presidential Campaign is this Saturday, Feb. 4 — the Nevada primary. So we have to ask: Is Nevada more like America?
» Full Story Arnie Reisman

Speeding down the roadway of life, warning signs posted along the way give us an indication of what lies ahead.
» Full Story By Thomas Dresser

On Sunday afternoon, Occupy Wall Street-Martha8217;s Vineyard held its first general assembly at Howes House in West Tisbury.
» Full Story By Sam Low

Although it can’t quite match the excitement of the Super Bowl for beating back the winter blues, mid-January also marks the beginning of budget hearings for West Tisbury and other Island towns. The discerning reader might ask, so what?
» Full Story Katherine Triantafillou

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Friday, January 27, 2012

My spirit was bent over double in the spring of 2004 when I walked into Edgartown Books on Main street, which last week announced it is closing.
» Full Story By Shelley Christiansen

Once upon a time, ever so long ago, there were machines called typewriters.
» Full Story By Ruth Adams

Gannon and Benjamin Marine Railway, a well-known boatbuilding operation on Beach Road in Vineyard Haven, has a new partner.
» Full Story By Mark Alan Lovewell

Friday, January 20, 2012

He was calling from the police station and he was crying. We had a bad connection, but it sounded as if he were in some awful trouble up in Canada.
» Full Story Iris C. Freeman

Saturday night’s musicale at the Pit Stop in Oak Bluffs was unrehearsed, hilarious, disorganized, rambunctious and filled with all the bumbling and magical moments we could have hoped for.
» Full Story Todd Follansbee

On Jan. 15 more than 90 people gathered at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center for an afternoon of videos, music and discussions about the Occupy Wall Street movement.
» Full Story By Sam Low

Friday, January 13, 2012

There was a time in America when debate mattered.
» Full Story James Reston

The year is 2008. Georgette drives the van from Montgomery to Selma on U.S. Route 80.
» Full Story By Alison Mead

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
» Full Story Elaine Weintraub & Ana Nascimento

Friday, January 6, 2012

Recently, many people have talked to me about the Oak Bluffs roundabout. These talks left me with the impression that many people do not fully understand the project or the Martha’s Vineyard Commission’s role. And so, speaking for myself, I’d like to address some items.
» Full Story Chris Murphy

What follows are an edited selection of e-mails sent to the Chilmark planning board from town property owners in advance of the board’s meeting this week to discuss the issue of extra large houses.
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Friday, December 30, 2011

From foreign films to home-grown musical acts, the best movies, books and albums of 2011, as selected by Vineyard experts, are sure to keep Islanders entertained through the winter.
» Full Story By Ivy Ashe

Warm days, nighttime showers and a few near misses added up to a splendid 2011 weather year for Vineyarders and their visitors. They enjoyed plenty of sunshine, with most of the Island’s rain falling at night. They also dodged some of the region’s most dramatic weather, including the remnants of a large hurricane and heavy snowstorms that landed elsewhere in New England.
» Full Story By Mark Alan Lovewell

Friday, December 23, 2011

We occupied Martha’s Vineyard, which wasn’t difficult as we already lived here. Unfortunately nobody thought of OMV until fall when the infamous one per cent had already left on private jets. Someone suggested that we set up a camp, but with hunting season upon us, and most of us being older, camping didn’t seem safe.
» Full Story Michael Ditchfield

As a child, the closest I ever came to Campbell’s cream of mushroom soup was through a slide of Andy Warhol’s iconic print in an art history class; except for once a year, Hanukkah, which began this week. It’s the key to my great-grandmother’s brisket recipe, and last weekend I found myself elbow deep in it as I made the dish for the first time by myself.
» Full Story By Remy Tumin

’Twas Christmastime and good St. Nick Was coming to our bailiwick From the North Pole region with his deer Who love the Vineyard — that’s quite clear
» Full Story By Phyllis Méras

Friday, December 16, 2011

Since I am in the holiday spirit (and, having just consumed a mug of hot toddy, a glass of eggnog and a nip of cheer, the holiday spirits are in me), I have once again decided to follow in that great tradition of boring everyone silly by writing a Christmas letter.
» Full Story By Jerry Zezima

On Saturday night, Nina Violet celebrated the release of her new CD, We’ll Be Alright, at the Pit Stop on Duke’s County avenue in Oak Bluffs. Catty-corner to Tony’s, in the town’s Arts District, the place has been a garage, a jazz joint, a consignment shop for art, a recording studio and more, so it has a homey industrial feel to it — a spot for getting all kinds of creative things done. It’s owned by Nina’s father, Don Muckerheide, who hosted the celebration.
» Full Story By Sam Low

The first itinerant preacher to travel as far as Chilmark was the Rev. Joshua Hall, in 1797. A small Methodist “class” was formed and continued to meet in the home of Capt. Francis Tilton, until 1827 when the old Methodist meetinghouse in Edgartown was purchased and subsequently moved piece by piece to the intersection of Middle Road and Meetinghouse Road, which was then the center of town.
» Full Story Rev. Arlene Bodge

Friday, December 9, 2011

High Impact, Low Protection • Hidden Costs • From the Next Generation
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There was almost no one on the first deck of the MV Martha&#s Vineyard on the 2:30 p.m. boat out of Woods Hole on Nov. 16. Once the motor vessel had turned around to head out across the Sound, the quiet was deafening— no hum of conversations, no cell phones in use, no shuffling footsteps, no babies’ cries, no children’s running feet, no greetings, no laughter, no one.
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