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Rita I. (Decosta) Meyer, 90, died on May 14, 2023, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, after an accidental fall.  Rita was born in Oak Bluffs on March 20, 1933. She lived briefly in Germany when her ex-husband was stationed there, returning to Martha’s Vineyard and living in Vineyard Haven for most of her […]

It’s Labor Day, 1929, at the New Bedford, Martha’s Vineyard & Nantucket Steamboat company wharf in Oak Bluffs. The last steamer has departed for the night. The terminal staff has gone home after a busy three-day weekend; 4,000 passengers passed through that day alone. A shadowy figure — or is it two? — climbs unseen […]

The lawsuit alleges that Franklin Cummings Tech fired the professors in an effort to turn the faculty into a “roster of younger Black men.”