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Susan Kresse Cole (“Suzie,” or “Susie”), 69, of Harbor Homes on New York Ave. in Oak Bluffs, died on Jan. 18, 2024, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Susan was born on August 20, 1954, at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Nyack, N.Y., the daughter of Elizabeth (Bette) Cole and David Soutter Cole. Susan lived with […]
Clifton Hillman Athearn, a native son of West Tisbury, died on Dec. 12, 2023, at his home in West Tisbury. He was born about a half-mile from there in 1923, the youngest of four children, including Elmer (Mike), Leonard, and Louise. The farmhouse he was born in, now the home of Simon and Robyn Athearn, […]
“Everybody can be great … because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” —Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This message from Dr. King is […]
When you’ve worked for newspapers as long as I have, you’re bound to have congratulated more than one colleague on their new book. This is my turn to applaud Bill Eville’s “Washed Ashore.” Like many people on the Island, I’ve read Bill’s essays over the years in the Vineyard Gazette. Eville is editor there now, […]
On a balmy September Saturday evening in Edgartown, 36 of the 49 mostly Venezuelan migrants who were transported here a year ago nearly to the day returned to the Island that welcomed them with open arms. English and Spanish conversation mingled and filled the air in the parking lot of St. Andrew’s Church and Parish […]