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Vineyard Haven business owners, frustrated by recent flooding around Five Corners during a series of winter storms, are hoping to present a unified front in pushing for improvements at the notorious five-way intersection. Around a dozen business owners attended a Visit Vineyard Haven meeting on Tuesday morning, and discussed opportunities to represent their interests as […]

Artist David Wallis has a unique perspective on the Vineyard art world. On staff at the Granary Gallery in West Tisbury, Wallis has overseen a long-established Island institution that has represented hundreds of artists working in a variety of media. Among the luminaries whose work can be found at the gallery housed in an iconic […]

European manufacturers know this plot: A once proud industry under cost pressure from foreign – chiefly Asian – competitors, jettisons its mass market...

To the Editor: During the week of June 18, six teenagers from the Neighborhood First program in Philadelphia came to spend a week on M.V. Their trip was sponsored by the MV BLM community, and facilitated by the generosity of several Islanders. In addition to the financial donors, whose generosity has already been personally acknowledged, […]

Update 6 pm The path of Tropical Storm Henri is becoming clearer and it’s likely to make landfall further west than forecasters believed 24 hours ago and is expected to make landfall over Long Island, New York. Martha’s Vineyard is now under a tropical storm warning and a storm surge warning, but the hurricane warning […]

Germany: MV Werften to cut 1,200 shipyard jobs In a two-minute video, the CEO of MV Werften (shipyards), Peter Fetten, informed the workforces of the three shipyards in Wismar, Warnemünde and Stralsund that more than a third of the 3,000 jobs are to fall victim to a “restructuring programme.” Around 1,200 jobs are at risk—a bitter blow for the workforces, as the shipyard industry is one of the most important employers in the region. MV Werften GmbH shipyards in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Weste...