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WHEELING — Oglebay Institute’s Parcel Players close their summer season with the deviously delicious Broadway and Hollywood sci-fi smash musical, “Little Shop of Horrors.” The production will continue to be staged today through Sunday, Aug. 4-6, at Towngate Theatre in Wheeling. Thursday night’s opening performance was sold out. Howard Ashman and Alan Menken (Disney’s “The […]

  Chilmark voters joined their peers in Tisbury, Oak Bluffs, Edgartown and West Tisbury in supporting a housing bank. At town meeting Monday night, voters approved the article on a voice vote after some extensive debate. The question will be on the town’s election ballot on Wednesday as well. Three towns — Oak Bluffs, Edgartown, and […]

Chilmark voters approved an extra $1.3 million for an impending project that will provide the town a new fire station and a first ever Tri-Town Ambulance headquarters. Voters unanimously amended the $1.2 million figure on the warrant, adding $100,000 on a motion from select board chair Jim Malkin.​​ Prior to the special town meeting, the […]

To the Editor: In the early 1970s, I was looking for a job. Everett Poole needed a secretary. I applied, and he hired me, maybe because we were both progeny of whaling captains. Everett Poole was a remarkable man. He had a shrewd and piercing intelligence that he often covered over with dry Yankee humor. […]

Greetings from cold, bright, and snowy Ithaca, N.Y., where I am visiting seasonal Aquinnah residents Rachel and Mike McDonald. The air is bracing, and the snow has a pleasing crunch to it. Ithaca is a charming town, and there is a small ski mountain close by, where some members of our group are taking advantage […]