Our faith community knows that there’s a significant population here on the Vineyard that doesn’t enjoy the high living and “fun in the sun” vacation life that most outsiders associate with the Island. Housing, we know, is a significant problem, and so too is food scarcity, and Island congregations make sure that there are opportunities […]
The Edgartown select board approved the 2023 annual town meeting warrant on Monday night, which will include an article proposing the ban on the sale of plastic nip bottles bottles of alcohol under 100mL. If approved, the ban would go into effect May 2024. This follows a year’s long discussion among both down-Island towns […]
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 […]
Last week was Groundhog Day and of course the groundhog saw his shadow and the rest of the U.S. will get six more weeks of winter. We, here on Martha’s Vineyard, will have winter until mid-May like we always do, regardless of the groundhog and its shadow. That’s about 13 weeks, but who’s counting? At […]
To the Editor: Following the murder of George Floyd, a group began kneeling at Beetlebung Corner to honor the lives of Black, indigenous and people of color harmed or killed by law enforcement. During a virtual vigil on Feb. 28, we learned about Pervis Payne, a Black man with intellectual disabilities on death row in […]