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3 days ago | 
mvtimes.com | Daniel Greenman
After many spent the first part of the day collecting trash from Island beaches, Vineyarders flocked to the M.V. Museum on Saturday for the third annual Earth Day Festival, a chance to get to know and get involved with local environmental efforts.
The all-ages audience, many families with young children, enjoyed arts and crafts with natural materials as well as discussions with field researchers.
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3 days ago | 
mvtimes.com | Daniel Greenman
Island officials have narrowed down preliminary designs for the high school building project to four final concepts, one of which includes a new performing arts center.
By June 26, the committee must submit a renovation-only design, an addition and renovation plan, and a totally new construction option to the Massachusetts School Building Authority.
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1 week ago | 
mvtimes.com | Daniel Greenman
Many Islanders and commuters are voicing frustration with the Tisbury select board’s decision to remove covered benches at the Vineyard Haven Steamship Authority terminal bus stop, which was made in order to discourage loitering and stop fights that have broken out in the area.
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1 week ago | 
mvtimes.com | Daniel Greenman
Two months ahead of the 50th anniversary of “Jaws,” businesses are finalizing plans for the big summer season, which include a screening with a live orchestra and a to-scale replica of the interior of the Orca boat at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum.
The Martha’s Vineyard Chamber of Commerce announced some of the top events in a press release on Friday.
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1 week ago | 
mvtimes.com | Daniel Greenman
The jobs of two Vineyard health professionals are in jeopardy due to federal funding cuts, which threaten to hold back local public health efforts.
The two professionals — case investigator and former emergency room nurse Betsy VanLandingham and epidemiologist Leah Hamner — track diseases on-Island thanks to two contracts totaling $133,000 per year.
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2 weeks ago | 
mvtimes.com | Daniel Greenman
Edgartown voters on Tuesday night sat down for a four-hour town meeting, led by moderator Steve Ewing at the Old Whaling Church. Voters passed a leaf-blower phaseout, approved a party bylaw postponed last year, and passed significant funding for town projects.
Among the highlights Tuesday, voters passed a bylaw allowing up to five well-attended commercial events per year on a single lot, via special permit.
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2 weeks ago | 
mvtimes.com | Daniel Greenman
West Tisbury voters could set the tone for the future of Mill Pond, and they’ll debate a long-discussed event bylaw — those are just a few of the requests among more than 60 town meeting articles up for approval on Tuesday.
A highly anticipated vote will come near the end — article 64 — to form the Mill Pond Preservation Committee. “Mill Pond … is so significant and central to the history, the landscape and the wildlife of West Tisbury,” the citizen’s petition states.
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3 weeks ago | 
mvtimes.com | Daniel Greenman
A pair of covered benches at the Vineyard Haven Steamship Authority bus stop is set to be removed to discourage loitering, drug use and people seeking shelter.
On Monday, the select board unanimously approved the bench removals following a letter from the Vineyard Transit Authority, the public entity that operates the stop. The letter, addressed to Tisbury Police in January, cited increasing threats to passenger well-being there such as drug abuse and fights.
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3 weeks ago | 
mvtimes.com | Daniel Greenman
The Broadway play “The Shark Is Broken,” a comedy drama based on the making of the movie “Jaws,” is coming to the Vineyard this summer in celebration of the film’s 50th anniversary.
The play is currently touring the U.K. and Ireland, after showing from August to September 2023 on Broadway in New York’s John Golden Theatre. It will be on the Vineyard amid the height of events commemorating the premiere anniversary of “Jaws” on June 20.
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4 weeks ago | 
mvtimes.com | Daniel Greenman
Twenty-five years ago on the Island, a group of theater school friends had just finished shooting “The Last Will and Testament of Marlboro Patch,” Vineyarder Brian Ditchfield’s adaptation of the book of the same name by his father Michael Ditchfield. The film follows a man unraveling the mystery of his father’s death, leading him to encounters with armed militias and the FBI.
