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We may as well review January’s rainfall from around the area before the next batch of showers arrives shortly: Rob Starr, Cougar, 19.16 inches; Jim Knoll, Five Corners, 6.87 inches; Robin Ruzek, Lakeshore, 4.94 inches; Chuck Houghten, Hockinson Heights, 7.76 inches; Tyler Mode, Battle Ground, 6.55 inches; Bob Mode, Minnehaha, 4.34 inches; Irv St. Germain, Prune Hill, 7.64 inches; Claudia Chiasson, Carson, 9.15 inches; Bill Sobolewski, Livingston Mountain, 9.92 inches; Dick Lenahan, Meadow Gla...

The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School (MVRHS) district has been in a holding pattern as it awaits a response from the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) regarding admittance into their building program. Two separate letters, one issued by MVRHS and one issued by the town of Oak Bluffs, were sent to the MSBA with the […]

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- A local organization has finalized its purchase of the historic Store at Five Corners at the intersection of Routes 7 and 43 in Williamstown. On Jan. 27,

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Community Preservation Committee voted to recommend on Wednesday all four funding applications for approval at May's annual town meeting.   Two of...

Members of the Martha’s Vineyard chapter of Disrupt Death Row were excited and happy to hear that the Shelby County Criminal Court in Tennessee ordered death row inmate Pervis Payne to be sentenced to concurrent life sentences on Monday, according to a press release. This is a reduced sentence from the two life sentences he […]

A nonprofit group that formed late last year to buy and maintain the historic Store at Five Corners in Williamstown has officially purchased the property for $400,000.

The proposed monstrous five-story apartment building with first-floor retail space is mean and nasty for Five Corners neighborhood in the City of

Tisbury’s select board has unanimously approved Beach Road Weekend for the next three years. The 2022 concerts will be Aug. 25-28, the 2023 concerts Aug. 24-27, and the 2024 concerts will be Aug. 22-25. The approval came Jan. 26 with the understanding a draft agreement would be subject to some modifications.  Town counsel David Doneski […]

A pedestrian was flown to a mainland hospital with serious injuries after being hit by a vehicle on Martha’s Vineyard Monday night. 

Asian Indians who settled in Jersey City in the 1980s were victims of racist attacks carried out by people who called themselves "Dotbusters."