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3 days ago | 
blockclubchicago.org | Noah Glasgow
BRIDGEPORT — Six months ago, Shawn Rogers thought he had hung up his apron for good. Rogers was once a chef and restaurant manager in Chicago, with stints at local staples, including The Berghoff. But a growing family and the pandemic turned him away from the food industry — until he was making pizzas with family and friends on Halloween and remembered the joy of slinging slices.
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1 week ago | 
blockclubchicago.org | Noah Glasgow
HYDE PARK — Teens attending a “takeover” event Saturday in Hyde Park said the much-maligned gatherings are efforts to hang out with friends — and that attempts to police the teens or lower curfew laws won’t actually help the city’s youths. After a teen takeover failed to materialize Friday in River North, teens gathered Saturday along Hyde Park’s commercial corridors, where they were met by around 100 police officers.
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3 weeks ago | 
blockclubchicago.org | Noah Glasgow
HYDE PARK — Residents of Kenwood’s Indian Village met with local leaders Monday to protest the continued operation of a shelter for people experiencing homelessness. The former Best Western hotel, 4900 S. DuSable Lake Shore Drive in Kenwood, opened last year as a shelter for asylum seekers and other unhoused migrants. The neighboring Lake Shore Hotel, also vacant, opened to migrants in late 2023 and closed in October.
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3 weeks ago | 
keenesentinel.com | Noah Glasgow
For years, the Monadnock Regional School District left policies on student cellphone use to individual schools and teachers. But as phone use during the school day has risen, so has concern from teachers, administrators and parents, Superintendent Jeremy Rathbun said. “We're hearing it from all of our stakeholders — that we have to think about cellphone use during the school day,” Rathbun said.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
vineyardgazette.com | Noah Glasgow
With its first major structures completed, the Island Autism Group will welcome community members to an open house this Saturday to tour the West Tisbury campus that has been over a decade in the making. Island Autism has recently completed “phase one” of the project, executive director Kate DeVane said. The central “hub house,” a large, two-story building designed for school-age and adult programming, is finished and in daily use, Ms. DeVane said.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
vineyardgazette.com | Noah Glasgow
Benadryl, hydrocortisone cream, prescription-only permethrin cream — all are in high demand at Conroy’s Apothecary in West Tisbury, where owner and pharmacist Tamara Hersh says that a wave of late summer tick and mite bites have sent Islanders into her store itching for relief. “It started in August and has just exploded,” Ms. Hersh said. Island wildlife experts, doctors and pharmacists have all reported a spate of tick and mite bites in recent weeks.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
vineyardgazette.com | Noah Glasgow
The Oak Bluffs select board reaffirmed its support for the town’s plastic water bottle ban Tuesday, agreeing to direct the town’s board of health to enforce the neglected ban on sales. In 2021, the town of Oak Bluffs passed a ban on the sale of plastic water and soda bottles under 34 ounces. But over the past three years, town officials have failed to enforce the ban, the Vineyard Conservation Society and other environmental advocates have said.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
vineyardgazette.com | Noah Glasgow
Painted leaderboards, scales, old wooden ramps, a box of hats wheeled out on an office chair — a seemingly endless stream of bric-a-brac made its way Saturday morning from pick-up trucks and SUVs into a lonely shed at the end of Main street in Edgartown.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
vineyardgazette.com | Noah Glasgow
It has been years since a guest stayed at the Outermost Inn in Aquinnah. The restaurant still bustles with activity, booking out weeks in advance. But since 2021, Hugh Taylor, the proprietor of the Outermost Inn, has put the inn’s eight guest rooms to an unconventional purpose: employee housing. “I can’t say that it’s a permanent condition, but it certainly seems to work at this point,” Mr. Taylor said. Denise Schepici, the president and COO of Martha's Vineyard Hospital.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
vineyardgazette.com | Noah Glasgow
Fred Waitzkin’s latest novel began with a phone call. Mr. Waitzkin, Chilmark resident and author of Searching for Bobby Fischer and The Last Marlin, among other books, had lost two friends to age. As he dwelled on the past and last moments, he decided to place a call to one of his oldest friends, Ralph Silverman, a high school classmate. Although Mr. Silverman now lived in a small apartment in Fort Lauderdale, he had spent nearly two decades homeless in South Florida.
