After a strong indoor season highlighted by several Cape and Island Championship placements, the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School track and field team is ready to stretch their legs on a track double the size and take on some extra events as the outdoor track season kicks off. The season opened in Harwich on Wednesday where both the boys and girls teams took on Monomoy Regional High School and Sturgis Charter Public School in a dual meet. On the girl’s side, the Vineyarders dominated…
Oak Bluffs, West Tisbury and Edgartown are among the first towns in Massachusetts to approve a new “seasonal communities” designation, which will provide additional tools to address the Island’s housing crunch. All three towns voted the designation through at town meetings on Tuesday with overwhelming support, and they follow just Provincetown where voters approved the distinction on Monday. The passage is a significant step toward addressing housing needs on the Cape and the Islands, according…
West Tisbury voters passed a $1.6 million override to fund the upcoming fiscal year operating budget. Voters cast their ballots Thursday at the West Tisbury Public Safety Building for various, mostly uncontested candidate races, and to vote on ballot questions. One of these ballot questions was for an override to fund its proposed, roughly $25 million budget, a reduced version that was passed during the annual town meeting on Tuesday. The rise in the budget was largely due to increases to education…
Elizabeth Brady (“Betty”) of Vineyard Haven, a lifelong community builder, mental health advocate, and dedicated executive assistant and office manager, passed away peacefully on March 19, 2025. Born in New York City in 1933, she grew up in the Bronx, child of Irish immigrants William and Anna Shortall. Betty raised a family of five children, building strong, lasting relationships along the way as the family moved through several states before eventually settling in Duxbury for many years. …
With 538 votes, Amy Lee Del Torto ran away with a three-way race to become Oak Bluffs’ new town clerk Thursday, defeating challengers Benjamin Robert Clark (225 votes) and Gail Barmakian (156 votes). Del Torto said that she was ready to get to work. “I’m just overwhelmed right now about the support. It was a hard race, and I’m just so honored that I was elected … I’m so excited to get to work for the people of Oak Bluffs,” she told The Times before swearing in. Town officials read preliminary…
In Thursday’s election in Edgartown, 42-year-old lifelong Edgartown resident Alex Morrison beat out incumbent Michael Donaroma in a landslide. The final tally showed Morrison securing 469 votes, followed by Glen Searle with 251, and Michael Donoroma with 200. “I would just like to thank Mike (Donaroma) for all his hard work,” Morrison told the Times after his win on Thursday. “Leaving the town in such great standing, it’s a lot easier to grab the helm of a ship that’s run…
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“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.” –Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984), a German Lutheran minister and early Nazi supporter who was…
As a psychiatrist, my job is to help people reduce their pain. In my practice and with family and friends, I am currently seeing people who are experiencing a specific kind of pain: pain caused by fear. We are amid what appears to be a massive shift in how our government operates. The Trump administration’s jarring policies have not only left us all politically unsettled and worried about our democracy; they have also tanked the American stock market in a historic tumble that some economists fear…
Aquinnah select board chair Gary Haley will be facing his first electoral rival since he was elected nearly a decade ago. Chris Manning, Gay Head Lighthouse keeper, is the challenger running for a seat on the select board. Aquinnah town clerk Kayla Darcy told the Times that Manning is stepping back from his other role as a constable, which he was elected to last year, to run for the board seat. Haley, who is also a master electrician by trade, was elected to the board in 2016 after running…
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