Phillips Hardware News Today

Tipping Lord knows I believe in tipping. I may be poor, but I’m not cheap. In fact, I usually overtip to make up for the parsimonious ways of my fellow senior citizens who live on a fixed income. Until capitalism pays each according to their need, I believe that those who do a little extra […]

Thomas Dresser sets his new book, “Martha’s Vineyard in the Roaring Twenties: Radicals and Rascals,” securely within the larger context of world history. It offers us a sweeping, micro/macro perspective of the decade sitting between the end of the First World War and the beginning of the Great Depression. The chapters are not sequential, nor […]

The Island has had its share of colorful names. There was Major Pain, the Chilmark lawyer who fought unsuccessfully to move our county seat out of Edgartown; Mayor Blood, who gave us the name “Cottage City”; and Captain Pound, the pirate who plagued Holmes Hole Harbor. There was Harry Legg, the Helenian carpenter; Dr. Lynch, […]

Seven things to do from May 20-May 31, from Elvis and Tom Petty tributes at Naukabout Brewery and Music Room to 86-year-olds newfound scribble art.

Robert “Bob” Pacheco arrived at Reliable Market in Oak Bluffs at 7:00 a.m. on September 3, 2022, to work, just like he always does. He put on his white butcher coat, tied on his white butcher apron, walked over to the meat counter, and started grinding hamburger, weighing it and packaging it up along with ribs, loins, sirloins, rounds, shanks, even meatballs to stock the store

Between reading Catherine Walthers’ Edible Vineyard story on World Central Kitchen (bit.ly/evworldkitchen) and George Brennan’s story on “Covering the Russian Invasion of Ukraine” at last weekend’s Islanders Write (bit.ly/mvtlongwar), I’m convinced I don’t know as much as I should about the conflict in Ukraine. And I definitely am not doing enough to help. Whenever there […]

The building that houses Phillips Hardware has sold. Owners Susan Phillips and Donna Leon sold their building to an LLC belonging to Bob and Donna Pacheco, who own Reliable Market. Phillips said the deal will allow her and her sister to run the hardware store for another three years. Phillips said she’s glad the building […]

The Surface Transportation Board on Thursday signed off on CSX’s acquisition of Pan Am Railways, paving the way for work to begin on 15.5 miles of railroad track that runs through the heart of Altamont and Voorheesville.

The Circuit Avenue building that has harbored Phillips Hardware for nearly a century is up for sale for $2.9 million. However, owners Donna Leon and Susan Phillips have decided they will retain the business. Leon and Phillips are sisters who took over the business from their parents.  “We’re selling the building, not the business,” Phillips […]

If you’ve noticed some bare shelves at your local grocery store, especially in the...