Monthly Archives: December 2023
Upcycling as art
Chicken Alley Thrift Shop in Vineyard Haven is a popular place to donate used goods: clothes, toys, kitchenware, and more. But not all goods...
Up-Island Council on Aging: January 2024
Up-Island Council on Aging, Howes House
1042 State Rd., West Tisbury
Monday – Friday, 8:30 am – 4 pm, closed holidays
508-693-2896
friendsofupislandcouncilonaging.org
There’s always something happening at the...
Edgartown Council on Aging: January 2024
Edgartown Council on Aging
The Anchors at 10 Daggett St.
Lyndsay Famariss
508-627-4368
lfamariss@edgartown-ma.us
edgartowncoa.com
Weekly Events
Monday
11:30 am: Bowling at the Barn
12:30 pm: Bridge
Tuesday
9 am: Yoga
10...
Oak Bluffs Council on Aging: January 2024
Oak Bluffs Council on Aging
21 Wamsutta Ave.
Rose M. Cogliano, 508-693-4509, ext. 3
oakbluffsma.gov/152/Council-on-Aging
Oak Bluffs Council on Aging will be closed Jan. 1 and Jan. 15...
Tisbury Council on Aging: January 2024
Tisbury Senior Center
34 Pine Tree Road, Vineyard Haven
Director: Joyce Stiles-Tucker
508-696-4205
tisburyma.gov/council-aging
The Tisbury Senior Center will be closed Jan. 1 and Jan. 15 for New Year’s...
Noteworthy for 55+: January 2024
Community Programs
MVRHS Luncheon
Monthly senior luncheons at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School’s Culinary Arts dining room are back every second Thursday. The next one is...
M.V. Center for Living: January 2024
M.V. Center for Living, the Island’s Dementia and Caregiver Support Network
Leslie Clapp, executive director
508-939-9440
lesliec@mvcenter4living.org
mvcenter4living.org
M.V. Center for Living will be closed Mon, Jan. 1, for...
Healthy Aging Martha’s Vineyard: January 2024
Announcing "Call the Tech Pro" for M.V. Older Adults
According to Healthy Aging M.V.'s Islandwide older adult survey, 9 in 10 of those 60+ want...
CORE senior services
CORE senior services
Care Coordinator: Ann Baird
508-693-7900, ext. 244
mvcommunityservices.org
Counseling, Outreach and Referral for the Elderly (CORE) at M.V. Community Services works with at-risk and mostly...
Adopting a drain in Tisbury
There’s a new way for Tisbury residents to help keep bodies of water within the town clean.
Tisbury Waterways, Inc., announced the launch of the...
2023 by the numbers
Here are some of the top news stories in 2023 on Martha’s Vineyard, by the numbers:
First: On March 28, the Oak Bluffs select board...
Oak Bluffs explosion prompts mutual aid effort
The Oak Bluffs Fire Department responded to a reported explosion at an Oak Bluffs scrapyard Wednesday evening, where officials say numerous vehicles, including buses...
Thank you
You’ll read elsewhere in our pages and online this morning that by the first of the year The Times will have been sold to...
MV Times welcomes new leadership
The ownership of the Martha’s Vineyard Times is changing hands.
Longtime publishers and owners Peter and Barbara Oberfest are selling the Island news organization to...
The 2023 Vineyard literary list
Most of the 2023 year-end book lists we’ve been reading are categorized by genre. Not this one. This impressive list of books published in...
Top 10 films of the year
Here they come: the top 10 films of the year. Of course, you, the viewers, may have your own ideas of what’s best. Let...
The visual arts in review
It was a blockbuster year for art in 2023. Just comb through the many archived articles, and you will see that each week offered...
The supreme court adds three (maybe four) to its schedule
Like most government agencies, the U.S. Supreme Court winds down its schedule as the Christmas and New Year’s season draws closer. The last day...
Unexpected connections and coincidences
To the Editor:
An especially grateful trio of elderly recipients of free Christmas meals sponsored by our M.V. Community Services and volunteers led to amazing...
Turf appeal could remedy Dover Amendment
To the Editor:
The Oak Bluffs’ Planning Board has decided to appeal the ruling by the Massachusetts Land Court regarding the artificial turf field at...