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Updated On Tuesday at a joint meeting of the Steamship Authority’s board and Port Council, former HMS Consulting president John Sainsbury, who led a 2018 deep dive into the ferry line that resulted in the transformational HMS report, returned to provide further assistance.  SSA general manager Robert Davis said Sainsbury, now managing partner of Maritime […]

According to the National Retail Federation, an estimated 166 million people are expected to shop from Black Friday through Cyber Monday. Black Friday is supposed to be the busiest day of the weekend.

NOVO Brazil Brewing, which opened a small taproom in Eastlake in 2015 will expand to a 300-person restaurant at the Otay Ranch Town Center in 2019.

Crowds look smaller and lines shorter, but shoppers awoke early on the day after Thanksgiving for deals and tradition.

Falmouth residents have once again called for changes to the Steamship Authority ferry schedule that would drop the 5:30 AM freight boat out of Woods Hole. About 120 participants logged on to a virtual Steamship hearing on Monday, May 3, to offer testimony against the proposed 2022 schedule, including an early morning freight run that has angered many Falmouth residents since it began in 2012. Woods Hole residents say the freight trucks cause excessive noise as they travel down Woods Hole Road ...

State Senator Susan Moran (D-Falmouth) is proposing legislation that would change the voting structure of the Steamship Authority board of governors, eliminating the majority control of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. The bill, called “an act relative to municipal equity on Steamship Authority operations,” would give filibuster power to the three minority ports of Falmouth, Barnstable and New Bedford. As it is structured now, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket each have a 35 p...

Members of a long-range planning task force are looking to fix the noise and traffic issues caused by the Steamship Authority’s Woods Hole to Martha’s Vineyard ferry operations. The group, which has met five times so far, will continue to meet for the next year or so and will make recommendations to curb the issues. Heavy traffic, both auto and freight, on the Woods Hole to Vineyard Haven and Oak Bluffs route draws ire from communities on both sides of Vineyard Sound. Members are stil...