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Martha's Vineyard Gazette

• January 02, 2009
• 1:00

  Islanders Hold Fast to Hope in Hard Times

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: January 2nd, 2009, 1:00am EST

  The year in review.
• December 19, 2008
• 1:00

  Teacher Arrest Stirs Reaction

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: December 19th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  School leaders seek to allay concerns in Island community following alleged sex offenses among elementary students
  
  Vineyard school administrators stepped in this week to provide information and support to parents following the arrest of a West Tisbury junior high school teacher for alleged sex and other offenses against students who were minors.
• 1:00

  Homelessness Looms in Cold

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: December 19th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  Council on Aging worker tells Tisbury selectmen that some Islanders are now living with no roof overhead
  
  Like most Vineyarders, Connie Teixeira had not given much thought to the specter of homelessness on the Island. Then, this year, she found herself looking the reality of it in the face, day after day at the Tisbury Senior Center.
• 1:00

  Nell Coogan Is Named New Legislative Liaison

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: December 19th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  An Island native and young attorney with a bit of political legacy in her own right has been appointed as the next Vineyard legislative liaison.
• 1:00

  Aquinnah Scrambles for a Plowman

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: December 19th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  As meteorologists yesterday charted a storm creeping inexorably toward the East Coast, in Aquinnah a race was on to get someone behind the wheel of the town snow plow.
• 1:00

  Museum Will Not Move to School; Town Seeks Bids

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: December 19th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  While the Martha’s Vineyard Museum continues to stall on the question of shifting its base to the old Edgartown school, selectmen have formally put the historic building back on the market.
• 1:00

  Safe from Hunters, Deer Found Locked Inside Vacant Building

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: December 19th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  It was the last day of shotgun season for deer hunting and the state forest was the place to be to bag a buck before the sun went down. Or a land bank property. Or a private estate, for those with permission.
  
  No hunter would have thought to look inside the old Edgartown School, where one deer was either smart enough or lucky enough to avoid the business end of a shotgun.
• 1:00

  Reach Out This Season, To Find What’s Been Lost

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: December 19th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  Almost every year, during the Advent Christmas season, I spend some time thinking of Christmas past and how the past may help us celebrate the meaning of this season in the present and in the days to come. The other day, I sat in the silence of my study rereading my Christmas sermons of yesteryear. Each reading took me back to that particular Christmas with a tremendous sense of crispness and clarity. And as I sat there thinking and feeling . . . I could not help wondering if all those words really made any difference to the people who heard them.

• December 17, 2008
• 19:00

  News Update: Wed., Dec. 17: Nell Coogan Named Legislative Liaison

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: December 17th, 2008, 7:00pm EST

  Newly elected Cape and Islands state Rep. Tim Madden, who takes office in January, announced late Wednesday that he has appointed Nell Coogan as the Vineyard legislative liaison.
• December 15, 2008
• 12:00

  News Update: Monday, December 15: West Tisbury Man Injured in Car Crash

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: December 15th, 2008, 12:00pm EST

  A Vineyard man is in stable condition following a high-speed car crash just after midnight Saturday on State Road in West Tisbury, according to West Tisbury police.
• December 12, 2008
• 10:00

  Voters Preserve Money for Bradley Square

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: December 12th, 2008, 10:00am EST

  A proposal to rescind $400,000 in Community Preservation Act money for the hotly debated Bradley Square project was easily defeated by Oak Bluffs voters during a well-attended special town meeting last night.
• 1:00

  Estuaries Study Now Complete

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: December 12th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  Report on Edgartown Great Pond leads town to mull possible mandatory sewer hookups for Island grove area
  
  Edgartown will consider making it mandatory for hundreds of residents in the watershed of the Edgartown Great Pond to hook up to a new town sewer line, following recommendations of a study into pollution of the pond.

• 1:00

  Ecologists See a Thousand Acres of Worm-Eaten Trees

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: December 12th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  Across about 40 acres of forest land at Polly Hill Arboretum, some 40 per cent of the oak trees are dead. Just like tens of thousands of trees on other conservation, town and private land across Martha’s Vineyard. The primary cause of their death is apparently clear.
  
  Caterpillars.

• 1:00

  Big Brother: Homeland Security Regulations Mean Extra ID for Charter, Ferry Captains

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: December 12th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  Brad Fligor is a captain who steers the three-car ferry that plies the narrow channel between Edgartown and Chappaquiddick. He has never considered himself a national security risk.
  
  But under a new set of little-known Homeland Security regulations passed by Congress, Mr. Fligor has had to go through a rigorous background check to acquire an identification card from the federal government.

• 1:00

  County Funds Run Short Five Months Into Fiscal Year; Budget Cutbacks Loom

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: December 12th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  The Dukes County treasurer warned this week that with revenue from the registry of deeds sharply down from last year, county department heads will be required to cut their budgets both during the current fiscal year and the following year as well.
• 1:00

  Elementary Teacher, EMT Arrested for Pornography

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: December 12th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  A West Tisbury school teacher was arrested on Tuesday amid charges that he provided alcohol and pornographic materials to minors and hosted underage parties at his Vineyard Haven home.
• 1:00

  Museum to Decide: Old School, West Tisbury or Just Stay Put?

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: December 12th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  The future setting of the Martha’s Vineyard Museum is the subject of a meeting tonight of its board of directors. The 26-member board will discuss whether to continue with an ambitious $27 million capital plan to relocate the museum to West Tisbury, or to move operations to the Edgartown school. Alternatively, the board could scrap both proposals and stay put at its original campus on the corner of School and Cooke streets in Edgartown.
• December 06, 2008
• 18:00

  News Update: Saturday, December 6: Vineyarders Lose Heartbreaker To Amesbury

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: December 6th, 2008, 6:00pm EST

  The Vineyard high school football team has dominated its opponents throughout the regular season. But Saturday at Bentley University in Waltham it was Amesbury's turn to dominate in the division 3A super bowl.
• December 05, 2008
• 1:00

  Garage Begins To Come Down

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: December 5th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  Demolition Is Now Under Way On Joseph G. Moujabber’s North Bluff Building, Ending Long Saga
  
  After five years, a pile of lawsuits and more public meetings than anyone could count, Joseph G. Moujabber’s illegal three-story garage in the North Bluff section of Oak Bluffs started to come down this week.

• 1:00

  Town Prevails In Graham Case

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: December 5th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  Appeals Court Rules Assessments At Mohu Are Fair and Justified, Upholding Earlier Decision By the State Tax Board
  
  The longest-running residential tax dispute in Massachusetts history, over the $51 million valuation of a West Tisbury property owned by William W. Graham, has finally ended with a win for the town assessors.
• 1:00

  David M. Flanders Was Country Realtor, Farmer, Man of Land

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: December 5th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  c David M. Flanders, a lifelong Chilmark resident and well-known Vineyard figure who was above all things a man of the land, died on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 27, just after tending his cows in the pasture. He was 76.

• 1:00

  Topsail Schooner and Boatline Spar Over Town Harbor Space

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: December 5th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  Since 1964, the tall ship Shenandoah has brought picturesque maritime charm to Vineyard Haven, moored in the same place in the harbor. But maybe not for much longer.
  
  The Army Corps of Engineers has written to the owners of the 150-foot wooden sloop, the Douglas family, threatening to suspend the permit for the ship to moor there unless they can come up with some solution that resolves persistent complaints from the Steamship Authority that the Shenandoah is a hazard to ferry operations.
• 1:00

  Super Bowl Road: Vineyard Plays Amesbury for Title Tomorrow

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: December 5th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  The juggernaut Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School football team continued its ascent toward a championship on Tuesday, easily defeating a talented team from Monument High School in South Boston in the state divisional playoffs to advance to a Super Bowl showdown against Amesbury tomorrow at Bentley University in Waltham.

• 1:00

  Naturalist Rose Treat on the Art Of Living at 100

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: December 5th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  Rose Treat turns 100 on Sunday. At 99, she is genial, relaxed and aware, if a bit hard of hearing. Though she uses a walker to get around, she is energetic and excited to share. She stands no more than five feet tall, and yet the strength of her character fills the room. She is without question an Island treasure. Her history is long and as full of life and variety as the sea by which she lives.

• December 04, 2008
• 23:00

  News Update: 12/03: Vineyarders Head to Superbowl

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: December 4th, 2008, 11:00pm EST

  The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School football team advances to the state Superbowl after an easy 42-14 win Tuesday against Monument High School from South Boston in the division 3A playoffs.

• November 28, 2008
• 16:00

  News Update: 3:30pm: David Flanders Dies at 7

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: November 28th, 2008, 4:00pm EST

  David Mayhew Flanders, a lifelong Chilmark resident and well-known figure on the Vineyard, died on Thanksgiving Day in Chilmark. He was 76.
• 1:00

  Island Economic Outlook Darkens, as Land Bank Revenues Drop Sharply

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: November 28th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  Look around and the signs are everywhere, even if some folks on the Island refuse to see them. Some are anecdotal, some are statistical, but they are legion.
  
  The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank numbers are one example. From July 1 to Nov. 21 this year, land bank revenues, which come from a two per cent levy on most Island real estate transactions, were just over $2.8 million. For the same period last year, the number was some $4.8 million.
• 1:00

  High School Principal Trims His Budget

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: November 28th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  Principal Steven Nixon’s decision to cut five and two-fifths positions at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, potentially an unprecedented measure, met with very little opposition at a public hearing on the school budget Monday night.
• 1:00

  Heroin Bust Casts a Spotlight on Island Addiction Problems

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: November 28th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  In the wake of a heroin bust in Vineyard Haven last Tuesday that led to the confiscation of nearly $70,000 in cash and illegal drugs and the arrest of six people — three from the same family — came warnings that heroin use is a serious problem on the Vineyard.
• 1:00

  Biggest Ever Scratch Card Winner Still Driving Tour Bus a Year Later

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: November 28th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  One evening at around this time last year Sandy Grant walked into Our Market in Oak Bluffs and came out a few minutes later scratching her head. She appeared to have won $10 million — the biggest winner in the history of scratch cards.

• 1:00

  Can Someone Tell Me the Way to Tisbury? Compass Saga Leaves Town Directionless

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: November 28th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  Tisbury town government lacks direction.
  
  That’s not a political criticism, just a statement of fact. If you tried to set your bearings by the magnificent copper, brass, bronze and gold leaf weather vane on top of town hall, you would end up lost.

• 1:00

  Tears and Fears From 150 Years All Housed Here

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: November 28th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  The scene of justice for now 150 years — where Island chicanery, plunder and families torn asunder are presented equally before law — the Edgartown courthouse commands a certain grandeur.

• November 22, 2008
• 20:00

  News Update: Saturday, November 22: Triumphant Vineyarders Carry Home Island Cup

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: November 22nd, 2008, 8:00pm EST

  NANTUCKET - - - The Vineyard high school football team defeated Nantucket 43-22 on a frigid, windswept field Saturday to bring home the Island cup for the sixth straight year.
• November 21, 2008
• 1:00

  Construction Sees a Sharp Downturn

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: November 21st, 2008, 1:00am EST

  The Island construction industry has fallen off sharply in recent months, most indicators show, with a growing number of carpenters and tradesmen out of work.

• 1:00

  Preservation Trust Buys Historic Boathouse

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: November 21st, 2008, 1:00am EST

  The Martha’s Vineyard Preservation Trust announced this week that it will buy and preserve the Norton property on the Edgartown harbor that includes the Osborn building, the oldest structure on the Edgartown waterfront.

• 1:00

  Wildest Turkey Case Is Closed

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: November 21st, 2008, 1:00am EST

  Most Charges Dropped as Court Hears Chilmark Man Accused Of Assaulting Police Officer Who Shot His Pet, Tom
  
  The story of a hostile, feral turkey that prowled the neighborhood of Old Ridge Road terrorizing residents with beak and spurs ended on Father’s Day, June 15, with its fatal shooting by Chilmark police officer Jeffrey Day.
• 1:00

  Tisbury Selectmen Vote to Shift Tax Rate, Favoring Commercial Property Owners

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: November 21st, 2008, 1:00am EST

  The average year-round resident in Tisbury will pay an extra $110 in property taxes next year, following a successful push from town businesses to shift the tax burden off commercial property.
  
  A nonresident property owner whose Vineyard Haven home is of average value - $860,425, according to the town assessors - will see an even bigger increase of almost $138, while business properties of the same value will see their taxes decrease by some $1,015.
• 1:00

  Young Quarterback Carries Family Legacy to the Snap

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: November 21st, 2008, 1:00am EST

  It is a chilly November evening; the sun has just dipped below the horizon and Mike McCarthy, quarterback for the Vineyarders football team, stands in back of the high school answering a reporter’s questions about this weekend’s Island Cup game.

• 1:00

  Vineyard Travels to Nantucket to Play for Storied Island Cup

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: November 21st, 2008, 1:00am EST

  The annual Island Cup game between the Vineyard and Nantucket football teams has long been a high-stakes affair, played to the bitter end for the right to dominate the world — or at least bragging rights between the two Island rivals.
• 1:00

  Fracas in Courtroom Follows Heroin Bust

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: November 21st, 2008, 1:00am EST

  Six people — three from the same Vineyard Haven family — were arrested on felony drug charges earlier this week following one of the largest heroin busts in Island history.

• November 14, 2008
• 1:00

  Finance, School Leaders Exchange Budget Woes

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: November 14th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  How to handle a $40 million school budget — ratified months ahead of other annual town budgets — during a recession. That is the vexing question now facing school and finance committee leaders across the Island.
• 1:00

  State Cuts Hit Preschool Care

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: November 14th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  Affordable Child Care Project Sees Funding Slashed, Rules Changed; Low-Income Families Affected
  
  Affordable child care on the Vineyard has been suddenly and severely curtailed due to state budget shortfalls.
  
  Already, no new Island children are being funded; as of Nov. 3, even eligible working parents are being placed on waiting lists indefinitely, Vineyard child care advocates confirmed this week. Because of a multimillion dollar deficit, the state department that handles early childhood education has unilaterally frozen child care assistance for low-income families.
• 1:00

  Bay Scallop Fishery on the Rebound

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: November 14th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  The Vineyard bay scallop season is underway and the news is mostly good for local consumers and commercial fishermen alike. Chilmark is having one of its best seasons in years; Edgartown is having one of its worst. Oak Bluffs and Tisbury are doing fine and on Monday another banner year is set to open in Aquinnah.
• 1:00

  Edgartown Will Consider Trust Fund for Housing

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: November 14th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  A proposed Edgartown affordable housing trust, which would streamline purchasing and take spending out of voter control and put it into the hands of a seven-member board, is the subject of a public forum set for Tuesday.
• 1:00

  How Temporary Is Drawbridge? Agency’s Record Raises Doubts

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: November 14th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  As another holiday season approaches with drivers still traversing the old Lagoon Pond drawbridge in Vineyard Haven, Islanders are being urged to keep their faith in MassHighway - faith that the state agency not only will complete the temporary bridge now underway on time and on budget, but that the temporary bridge won't become a permanent one.

• 1:00

  Brendan O’Neill Has Big Impact On Small Island

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: November 14th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  Some people, if they shared an award with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. might be pleased to think they’d made it, big-time. Not Brendan O’Neill. He was gratified to think he’d made it, small-time.

• November 07, 2008
• 1:00

  Election Day 2008: Vineyard Backs Obama All the Way

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: November 7th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  A Record Turnout Floods the Polls Across Island
  
  Vineyard voters came down decisively on the winning side of history on Tuesday, turning out in record numbers to help elect America’s first black President.
• 1:00

  Tim Madden Wins With Hefty Vote on Nantucket

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: November 7th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  Timothy Madden of Nantucket claimed the Cape and Islands state representative seat on Tuesday, beating out two Vineyard contenders and a Falmouth hopeful by some 2,000 votes district-wide.
• 1:00

  Beach Road Closure Proposed Amid Race to Replace Bridges

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: November 7th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  MassHighway is considering closing Beach Road between Oak Bluffs and Edgartown for the next six months in order to replace the two bridges known commonly as Big Bridge and Little Bridge.
• 1:00

  High School Braces For Budget Season

   » ‎ Martha's Vineyard Gazette

  Fetched: November 7th, 2008, 1:00am EST

  Amid calls from Island towns for zero increases in all budgets this year, schools are first in line
  
  Town finance committees, mindful of a coming recession, have called for zero per cent increases in Island school budgets, leaving educators braced for another dramatic budget season of instructional and programing cuts.