West Tisbury News

West Tisbury selectmen approved a 10-article warrant last Wednesday for a special town meeting to be held on June 5. Among other things, voters will be asked to fund two new positions to enforce the new dog regulations at Lambert's Cove Beach during the summer months.

With so many beautiful places to celebrate a wedding on Martha's Vineyard, it is a hard choice to fix on one venue.

Bob Skydell, owner of Fiddlehead Farm , will tell you - he's one of the few people in retail who really likes his customers.

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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.

These spring days seem to present themselves in transient effects, changing moment by moment, the colors, sunshine or fog, leaves, blooming flowers or shrubs.

West Tisbury is moving towards becoming a more energy-efficient town, but town officials will have to move quickly to file an application before a May 30 deadline to be designated by the state as a Green Community.

Philip Kane is on to something. He's not sure what exactly it is yet, but it's something to do with community gardening, sustainable living and education - and it all started to move from an idea to reality a few weeks ago with the ground breaking at Funny Farm, a community garden in West Tisbury.

After all these years, the limbo still has legs. Nils Aldeborgh shows how it's done, with assistance from pole-holders Jack Reagan, left, and Austin Chandler.

By now Island rental agents have put down their phones, turned their computers to the wall, and have booked up every last available house for the 4th of July weekend, and, in fact, the whole week itself.

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

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The 17-room home in Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard where President Barack Obama vacationed is for sale at $3.29 million.

Displaying the medal and certificate given to the van Raan family to honor their parents who harbored Jews during World War II are : Heleena van Raan, Gil Lainer - Consul for Public Affairs at the Consulate General of Israel in New York, Sig van Raan, and Yvette Daoud, Deputy Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in New York.

I suspect quite a few islanders, heading into Oak Bluffs on New York Avenue, nearly ran off the road when the blazing blue plants trailing over the retaining wall came into view.

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Last week's vote in Aquinnah brought the total number of Islanders who voted on the nonbinding referendum roundabout question to 2,558. While a strong showing of yeas were raised in support of the roundabout at the Oak Bluffs town meeting there was quite a different result in the rest of the towns.

AAA Southern New England reported Monday that self-serve, regular gas is down another nickel compared to last week.

Martha\'s Vineyard\'s accomplished music teacher and musician Will Luckey demonstrates his instrumental prowess by playing a few tunes on guitar and piano.