West Tisbury News

"I always liked to grow things," says Norman Lobb of West Tisbury, who first got to know the Island in the 1960s when his parents rented a summer place on South Road in Chilmark.

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.

Two years ago on the night of June 2 thieves broke into the office of the family owned E.C. Cottle lumberyard on Lambert's Cove Road in West Tisbury and removed a safe said to contain more than $10,000. Kristen K. Brown After two years of sleepless nights, Kristen K. Brown, 22, of Chilmark decided she could no longer bear the guilt for her role in ...

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. The whole idea of a holiday focused on gratitude pleases me.

There are no empty spaces on the walls on Michelle Mayhew's second grade classroom at West Tisbury School.

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

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

School spending accounts for the largest share of taxpayer expenditures in town budgets.

Earlier Sunday I sat in the Ag Hall, filled to capacity with admirers and memories of Polly Murphy, who died last week.

The Island Affordable Housing Fund provided half the money needed to fund subsidies in the Dukes County Regional Housing Authority rental assistance program Friday.

It was late Saturday morning at the Island's first Winter Farmers Market in the West Tisbury Ag Hall, and Oak Bluffs metalsmith John Roriz and Kate Collins, a respiratory therapist at the hospital, stood debating which of the Little Rock Farms soups was best, kale or butternut.

Saturday's first Winter Farmers Market was a great success. Many vendors sold out in the first hour, replenished their displays, and carried on.

The Martha's Vineyard Commission has been promised the final say over all wind power developments in Island waters, following a concerted campaign by all levels of Vineyard local government against a state plan earmarking them for commercial wind generation.

Superintendent of schools James Weiss said today that the number of absences due to swine flu and other illnesses has diminished this week.

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.

The past week has been beautiful. Jean Wexler called to tell me she had little yellow primroses blooming in her garden, usually a sign of early spring.

Requests for spending and efforts to save confronted the West Tisbury selectmen at their meeting on November 4. However, before getting down to business, selectman Richard Knabel, presiding in the absence of chairman Dianne Powers, noted that due to the rebuilding of the structure this meeting marked the first time in several years that the ...

The all-Island seasonal flu vaccination clinic, scheduled Wednesday, November 11, is limited to 1,200 doses that will be given on a first come, first served basis.

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; ...