Vineyard Haven News

If you have any free time during the holiday season, many Island groups can use volunteer help to accomplish their missions.

The Thanksgiving holiday is a time to be grateful for the abundance of talented people who make the Island their home.

Many return to the Island today and tomorrow to celebrate Thanksgiving. After a filling meal with family and a good night's sleep, now it's time to catch up with your friends.

Birds, particularly big, plucked, juicy roasted turkeys, are very much in the news today.

The town workers are already busy erecting the Christmas decorations around town with the David Healey Mall well decorated with wreaths and bows.

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.

"Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives," Elizabeth Benedict, editor, Free Press, 2009, $24.99. As her latest project, best-selling novelist, National Book Award finalist and former Vineyard resident Elizabeth Benedict is the editor of "Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their ...

The West Tisbury Free Public Library this week was named a top national library, receiving a five-star rating by Library Journal's LJ Index of Library Service.

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.

Defendant Jose Luis Arias in court yesterday. Two men were arrested on felony drug charges on Tuesday as they were stepping off the ferry in Vineyard Haven, the latest in a series of major drug busts over the past year involving suspects either caught selling drugs here or trying to bring large amounts of heroin to the Vineyard.

Easy does it. Almost everyone I have spoken to is planning to stay on the Island for Thanksgiving, but whether your home is the traditional destination, or it's your first time hosting, you'll find everything you need for Thanksgiving on the Vineyard.

Once a year, most Vineyard families celebrate a holiday all but defined by a meal, but there are many on the Island who can't afford the essentials for a turkey dinner.

It is Wednesday night - Pizza Night at the Orange Peel Bakery. Laughter and the sweet smell of baked dough fills the evening air at Juli Vanderhoop's home off State Road in Aquinnah.

The Martha's Vineyard Drug Task Force, working in conjunction with the Tisbury and Massachusetts State Police, arrested two men on felony drug charges today as they were stepping off the ferry in Vineyard Haven.

Nancy Gardella lists a few of her many accomplishments: speaking four languages, raising a Marine Corps son, taking care of her elderly parents, and running a successful housekeeping and property management firm.

November is here, which means company's coming and party time. The holiday season is upon us, so don't be caught unprepared.

New Englanders tend to be pretty casual when it comes to fashion. For many of us, jeans and T-shirts are de rigueur.

Nathaniel H. Fleming, Providence, RI; DOB 3/6/89, OUI-liquor or .08%: continued without finding for one year, must attend driver alcohol education program and pay program fee, $250 state fee, 210-day loss of license, must pay $250 HIF, $50 VDD, $50 VW, and $65 PSF; negligent operation of motor vehicle: dismissed at the request of the Commonwealth; ...

What a glorious October we are having: exciting storms and then days of lovely weather.

Forty-four seniors at Martha's Vineyard Regional High School qualified to receive the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship, the state's largest merit-based scholarship program.