News

Thomas Murphy eked out a win in a tight Aquinnah select board race Thursday, defeating challenger Jannette Vanderhoop 129-115.

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News, Fishing, Nature & Science

Bluefish Are Running, and Scene at Wasque Is Return to the Old Days

Alex Elvin

Last weekend, dozens of surfcasters at Wasque Point could hardly believe their luck. The water churned with bluefish as fishermen reeled in catch...

6:12 pm, June 4, 2015
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Community, Art

Humans of Martha's Vineyard Captures Essence of Island

Olivia Hull

This spring, teenagers Amber Medeiros and Olivia Pate created Humans of Martha's Vineyard, a Facebook page filled with photographs of Islanders along...

5:43 pm, June 4, 2015
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News, Art

Honoring Lois Mailou Jones, an Artist and a Trailblazer

Alex Floyd

When Lois Mailou Jones began painting in the 1920s, she did so in near anonymity, a sign of the endemic racism and sexism of the time. But 92 years...

5:11 pm, June 4, 2015
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Community, Dining, Books & Ideas

Family, Food and Farming: Choice Ingredients to Live By

Alex Floyd

Chris Fischer knows Martha’s Vineyard well. The family homestead, Beetlebung Farm, is the primary subject of Mr. Fischer’s new book, The Beetlebung...

4:54 pm, June 4, 2015
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Community, Nature & Science, Books & Ideas

Grooving With Genomics is Far Out

Alex Floyd

Next week at the Katharine Cornell Theatre, Dr. George Church will deliver a lecture on synthetic biology and its human health implications.

4:34 pm, June 4, 2015
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Recreation

At the Bridge Table: June 5

Jim Kaplan

What good came out of this accursèd winter? Only indoor activities.

3:16 pm, June 4, 2015
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News Briefs

Government

Firearms Discharge Bylaw Heads Back to Drawing Board in Edgartown

Edgartown selectmen voted Monday to withdraw an article from the upcoming annual town meeting warrant that would regulate the use of firearms, after...