Ben Deforest News Today

A popular Oak Bluffs eatery is on the move. A request to transfer the location and license of Red Cat Kitchen to the site of the former Oyster Bar 02557 was approved unanimously by the Oak Bluffs select board Tuesday evening.  Owner Ben DeForest brought the request forward after the Oyster Bar 02557 and its […]

About 50 Tisbury and Island residents gathered at the town’s senior center late Thursday afternoon to express their thoughts on the Beach Road Weekend, a three-day music festival held in August. Unlike the praise-fest festival promoter Adam Epstein enjoyed at an October select board meeting when business leaders and concert goers provided feedback to the […]

The Cardboard Box and Oyster Bar 02557 of Oak Bluffs will be closing their doors, owners Ben and Erica DeForest announced on Facebook. The last night of operation for the two restaurants will be on Saturday, Sept. 17.  “We’re very grateful to the Island community that supported us,” Ben DeForest told The Times.  DeForest said […]

The Red Cat Kitchen in Oak Bluffs is always looking for new ways to utilize the fresh and wholesome ingredients available right here on Martha’s Vineyard. Chef de Cuisine at Red Cat, Dan Kelleher, has been in the food industry for decades, and was inspired to cook when he took a trip to Greece with […]

Three years ago this week, Innovation Arts & Entertainment CEO Adam Epstein stood before the Tisbury select board and urged them to let him use Veterans Memorial Park to bring a three-day music festival to Vineyard Haven. It took months of negotiations over the logistics, but Epstein pulled off Beach Road Weekend to an enthusiastic […]

In an off-season first, the Vineyard and the rest of the region will have access to 20,000 additional H2-B visa workers this winter, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Office of U.S. Rep. Bill Keating, D-Bourne, both announced on Monday.  In an interview with The Times Monday afternoon, Keating said his office had […]

State Road Restaurant in North Tisbury has become a beacon for fine dining on the Island over the past five years, but didn’t just appear out of nowhere. The location on State Road where the restaurant stands has had a rich history of restaurants that can trace their roots back to a little ice cream […]

Paula Lyons Sunday, July 4, 2021 - 10:42pm Larkin Stallings has spent 40 years opening and running bars, restaurants and nightclubs, mostly in Houston, Texas. How he arrived on an island off the coast of Massachusetts and how he came to own the iconic Ritz on Circuit Avenue in Oak Bluffs is a Vineyard story of the best kind. Q. Larkin, when did you buy The Ritz? A. I’ve owned The Ritz going on about six years now. Q. And what made you buy it? A. Well, not great sense! But my wife Jackie and I...

FARGO, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) –  From the time he lost a heartbreaking 3-2 decision in the state title match in 2020, Koye Grebel had one thing in mind, get back to the state title match and win. Mission accomplished on Friday. The sophomore defeated William Sprenger of Devils Lake by tech fall at 5:20 (20-4) to  win the 106 pound weight class at the state wrestling tournament. Grebel, now 28-0,  was joined by seven teammates that placed at state, the second most in school history. Only las...