Bill Eville News Today

Here it is, right in front of us, the Great American Feast, Thanksgiving, the beacon that next comes the gift-giving holidays, a sharing of things we hope others will love as much as we love giving them. There is nothing I love giving more than books, sharing ones I’ve discovered over the past year.  And […]

When you’ve worked for newspapers as long as I have, you’re bound to have congratulated more than one colleague on their new book. This is my turn to applaud Bill Eville’s “Washed Ashore.” Like many people on the Island, I’ve read Bill’s essays over the years in the Vineyard Gazette. Eville is editor there now, […]

I listen to podcasts and the radio on weekend mornings while doing inside-the-house chores. Sometimes I hear things that I want to puzzle over with someone. My brain doesn’t retain exact quotes. I remember the topic was thinking about the experience of living, and what we want most deeply is to experience life in a […]

The Chilmark Tavern, Pathways’ winter gathering space, will once again be hopping on Tuesday nights. Ron Slate has arranged an impressive array of readers for this year’s Writing and Poetry Tuesdays lineup. As always, there will be time afterward for the audience to speak with the presenters, and then an open mic, making each night […]

NONFICTION: Bill Eville shares moving vignettes of striving to be a good husband, stay-at-home-dad and writer. "Washed Ashore: Family, Fatherhood, and Finding Home on Marthas Vineyard" by Bill Eville; Godine

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This week: An airman stationed at Joint Base Cape Cod is at the center of national scrutiny over leaked documents. And, a local group says it’s got a legal argument for stopping Holtec from dumping radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay.

In the past decade, we’ve done our darndest at Cognoscenti “to pay attention” as Mary Oliver wrote, for “that is our good and proper work.”

This week: About 50 migrants, most from Venezuela, including children, arrive unannounced on Martha's Vineyard as part of a political power play by the governor of Florida. And: the company decommissioning the Pilgrim nuclear plant releases radioactive water, this time in New Jersey, worrying local activists.

Brian Boyd replaces Julie Wells as editor of the Vineyard Gazette. Wells is retiring. Boyd comes from Shore Publishing in Connecticut.