Edgartown News

The winner of the January election will serve out the remainder of Mr. Kennedy's term, through January 2013.

I hope that everyone had a nice Thanksgiving. Over the holiday, the town was filled with visiting relatives and folks with summer homes here.

Housing fund executive director Ewell Hopkins. Admitting the mistakes of the past and pledging a new future of transparency in their financial affairs, leaders of the Island Affordable Housing Fund took the floor at the Vineyard Haven library on Wednesday night and faced the public over what one member of the audience called a breach of public ...

Five suspects are facing charges after the police recovered a safe stolen two years ago from a lumber yard.

Martha's Vineyard Commission officials attended the Edgartown selectmen's meeting Monday night seeking opinions on the Island Plan, a comprehensive policy document intended as a planning guide for Martha's Vineyard over the next 50 years.

Martha's Vineyard Savings Bank is venturing off the island, and leaving its name behind.

Nov. 9, Berta Welch, Vernon Welch and Carla Giles Cuch, trustees of Raymond Hill Nominee Trust and Adriana Ignacio, sold 2 Windy Hill Rd.

Margie Haven started as mediator in 1984. Last Thursday, past and current members of the Martha's Vineyard Center for Dispute Resolution celebrated their 25th anniversary in the one place they have been so effective at keeping people out of for years: the Edgartown district court.

Gov. Deval Patrick this week signed into law a saltwater recreational fishing license requirement that is the first of its kind in the commonwealth.

Did you see that thing in the sky? Photo illustration by Cooper Davis. On the evening of Sept.

World War II veterans Ted Morgan and Tom Hale with Linsey Lee, who curated Martha's Vineyard Museum exhibit opening tomorrow.

The Martha's Vineyard Regional High School District school committee met Monday night for a final review of the proposed fiscal year 2011 budget.

Chaos reigned inside the Vineyard Playhouse lobby last Saturday afternoon, the kind of chaos you'd expect when dozens of nine- and ten-year-olds gather.

A dreary fall day, and I needed a pick-me-up - something that will sparkle even in cloudy dismal light.

Contributions fell sharply and cash evaporated while debt soared at the Island Affordable Housing Fund between the years 2007 and 2008, audited financial statements show.

Taj Mah-Trouble was the title, but producing it was no trouble for students in Mrs.

The Fourth Grade Theatre Project performances were held last Saturday at the Vineyard Playhouse.

With only 1,200 doses available for the seasonal flu clinic at the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School Wednesday, by 10:30 am vaccination seekers were turned away.

Faced with a brutal truth, the mind can rebel and seek escape in fantasy. As Senator Edward Kennedy explained at the January inquest into the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, his mind did just that on the morning following the tragedy at Chappaquiddick last July.

It appears that tenants will be secure at least through January in the four Island towns where rental housing contracts were put in jeopardy two weeks ago, when the Island Affordable Housing Fund could not pay the monthly subsidies.