A 1.5-mile drive on Edgartown–Vineyard Haven Road took 40 minutes. It felt impossible to send a text or get a call through. Parking at State Beach was haphazard and unattainable. Want a quick cup of coffee? Forget it. These inconveniences and disruptions didn’t overshadow the patriotic spirit of the annual parades or obscure the bursts of fireworks in the night skies, but they did make it much more challenging to enjoy them. The chaos that came from the big crowds, a heat wave, and torrential…
Holmes Hole Sailing continued its regular Thursday and Sunday afternoon races these past two weeks, with 10 to 15 boats turning out for each race despite indeterminate weather forecasts. The winds picked up sufficiently, and all enjoyed the lively competition. On the final Thursday of June, sailors tackled the Vineyard Haven Harbor triangle in breezy 10-knot wind, aided by the flood tide from West Chop to East Chop, before battling an opposing current and fading wind on the final stretch. The…
The holiday weekend’s commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence brought packed parades, booming firework displays, and an unrelenting heat wave. Days of soaring temperatures, which felt even hotter due to high humidity, were interrupted by torrents of rain and choppy seas that combined to create flooding on Beach Road and Five Corners as traffic jams clogged roads across the Island. Summer is in full swing on the Island, and a deluge of visitors…
We’re Realtors who see the damage every day. A transfer fee won’t hurt home sales, and it will help provide housing. Combined, we have more than 60 years of real estate experience on Martha’s Vineyard, and we share a deep concern that skyrocketing home prices are threatening the economy and the quality of life on the islands we all cherish. As people who make our livings through the buying and selling of property, we believe the best path forward in this crisis is the adoption of a modest transfer…
The Supreme Court concluded its term at the end of June with two major decisions that affect Martha’s Vineyard’s undocumented immigrants. Their outcomes were different, but they had in common an attempt by President Trump to enhance executive power over immigration. Both cases demanded answers to a single question: Did the Trump administration use its authority to try to rid the country of nonwhite people, as embodied in expressions of racial animus? If so, courts may always review Executive…
To the Editor: Press reports have generally sung the praises of the Steamship Authority’s (SSA) new ticketing building in Woods Hole, including its remarkable spaciousness and improved bathrooms. The reports emphasize the views from inside the ticketing building of the magnificent vistas that lie beyond, at least when there are no boats in the slips. Unfortunately, some of the press have given little attention to the years of countless meaningful complaints about a design that is completely…
To the Editor: Thank you to the Edgartown Transfer Station for its attempt to make resident trash removal and recycling more efficient. However, I do hope that one design flaw can be corrected. Entering the transfer station, residents are directed to the right, onto a one-lane road. Because of new fencing, drivers cannot see if there are no cars in line to pay, or if there are 10. My experience last week was getting stuck for nearly 20 minutes when I could have come back another day. There is no…
This year’s Fourth of July also marked the 250th anniversary of when the country declared independence, and our Island met the moment with fanfare befitting the occasion. Islanders marched through Edgartown and Aquinnah in celebratory parades and watched dazzling fireworks, and there was a collective reflection on what freedom really means today in our country and on our Island. . We met this time of celebration and reflection amid a heat wave that quickly turned into a deluge of rain that…
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