Edgartown News

Nevin Square, a quaint shopping area off Winter Street in Edgartown, has seen its share of changes over the years.

Monday night's open mic at The Pit Stop in Oak Bluffs last week, May 21, was different from my expectations.

Writer/performer Tim Conway will hold a comedy show to benefit the Cure Alzheimers Fund and Island charities on Saturday, June 2. On Friday, June 1, and Saturday, June 2, the Rotary Club of Martha's Vineyard presents six-time Emmy Award winning writer/performer Tim Conway, star of "The Carol Burnett Show" and Disney's "Apple Dumpling Gang." The ... (more)

The Day That Will Live In Infamy had already come and gone, to whit, December 7 th , 1941, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the event was, well, infamous.

Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Society will join thousands of musicians and hundreds of concert presenters across the country this May in celebrating National Chamber Music Month.A MVCMS's presentation of music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, JoaquA­n Turina and Richard Strauss at its Spring Concert on Saturday, May 26th is part of a nationwide ... (more)

High season has arrived. Time for cookouts and ice cream cones and long, lazy days at the beach.

Edgartown police arrested a West Tisbury man after watching what they describe as a hand-to-hand drug transaction that took place in a busy parking lot on May 18.

Tisbury's annual Memorial Day parade in 2011 included many members of the Island's sheriff's, police and fire departments.

The town would like to lease space in a silo at The FARM Institute in Katama to wireless carrier AT&T. Concerned about radiation from wireless phone equipment, The FARM Institute Friday threw a monkey wrench into Edgartown's plans to install a mobile phone antenna inside a silo at the farm.

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For the first time in five summers, most of Sengekontacket Pond will be open to shellfishing this year, except immediately after it rains.

Jane Carroll told it straight up at An Evening Under the Stars, the annual fundraiser for the Martha's Vineyard Cancer Support Group , held last Thursday night, May 17 at Lattanzi's Restaurant in Edgartown.

SATURDAY MAY 19 th ARTS The Minnesingers perform tonight at the MVRHS Performing Arts Center.

Here's what we know: Drew, 37, and her art consultant fiance, Will Kopleman , 34, flew to MVY from NYC after their swanky engagement party for 300 on a rooftop in Hell's Kitchen.

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The Minnesinger Spring Show is Saturday at 7 pm and Sunday at 3 pm at the MV Regional High School Performing Arts Center.

I have to send a shout-out to the Edgartown Board of Trade on this past weekend's Pink and Green events.

In a rare split vote at their Monday meeting, Edgartown selectmen reappointed disbarred attorney Edward "Pete" Vincent to represent Edgartown on two town boards.

On Saturday, April 28, Edgartown commercial fisherman and retired business executive Chuck Wendel, returning from Cape Cod and fishing for sea bass off Oak Bluffs, found a box that had just returned from the edge of space.

Parents and students from the Rainbow Place pre-school were off and running at the start of the 2010 race.