Monthly Archives: July 2024
Boys and Girls Club director transitions to high school
Dhakir Warren, who has served as Executive Director of the Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club since June 2021, will be leaving his post...
A protest over an International musician’s stance on Israel
Monday evening marked the second annual Jewish Culture Festival in West Tisbury, an event organized through Vineyard Chabad to bring the Vineyard’s Jewish community...
Real Estate Transactions: July 8 – 19, 2024
Chilmark
July 17, Douglas S. Goldsmith and Karen M. Pickus sold 67 Bijahs Way to Karen M. Pickus for $10.
Edgartown
July 8, Robert J. Walter sold...
Poet’s Corner: Island Roads
Island Roads
By Jeffrey Agnoli
Beamers, rovers
beaters, dreamers
twenty-first century
machines roam the roads
across this piece of radiance
amidst the Atlantic.
Paths once traversed
by much earlier humans
nobler and saner
walking in...
Tisbury
Heard on Main Street: Sometimes I am forgetful. But some of life is just as well forgotten.
The winner of the Tour de France was...
Environmental impact released on turbine blade fracture
Consultants analyzing the environmental impact of the broken Vineyard Wind turbine blade have reported that the debris from the damage is not toxic and...
Cornelius Robert O’Sullivan
Cornelius Robert O’Sullivan, 88, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, at Mass General Hospital in Boston. His wife Eithne and son David...
No First Lady, but possibly first First Gentleman coming to the Island
Updated July 24.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, is now set to come to the Vineyard on July 29 for the campaign fundraiser...
GE offers minimal explanation on damaged wind blade
Updated
A manufacturing issue in a Canadian factory may be the reason why a Vineyard Wind turbine blade fractured last week.
Scott Strazik, CEO of GE...
Consider New Bedford freight proposal
To the Editor:
There are many advantages to 41 North’s proposal for developing a marine freight highway between New Bedford and the Vineyard. Diversification of...
Consider seniors before allowing transfer fee
To the Editor:
Your editorial (June 27) too easily embraces the proposed property transfer fee as “relatively small on high-end real estate,” suggesting it would...
Assistant superintendent hiring plan approved
The Vineyard’s All-Island School Committee has approved a plan to advertise a new superintendent role at $75,000 for a one-year contract, despite some members’...
Jeffrey Spear
Jeffrey Spear, 75, of Vineyard Haven and formerly of West Tisbury, died on Monday morning, July 22, 2024, at his home. He was predeceased...
Keith Anthony Debettencourt
Keith Anthony Debettencourt entered into eternal rest on July 7, 2024.
He was a lifelong Islander, and had a true love for the Vineyard...
Winging it for the baby robins
As a self-described animal person, Edgartown IT Manager Adam Darack didn’t need to think twice when it came to saving three baby robins that...
How to safely avoid horses on the roads
To the Editor:
It is that time of year again when we continue to try and educate the drivers, bicycle riders, and dog walkers of...
Possible Dreams raises more than $500,000
Dreams were made possible on Sunday with another successful fundraising campaign for Martha’s Vineyard Community Services.
The 46th annual Possible Dreams fundraiser, which benefits the...
In the Kitchen with … Gina Patti
Gail Patti isn’t a trained chef, but boy, can she cook. Patti has lived on the Island for 24 years, and has taught at...
West Tisbury
It’s still hot, although it feels slightly less hot at night and when we come downstairs in the early morning. There has been a...
Cribbage Club results
Eighteen Vineyard Cribbage Club members met on Wednesday at the MVRHS Culinary Dining Hall in Oak Bluffs to play our favorite game. The results...