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Shedding Light on the Lunar Eclipse
1:17 pm, September 24, 2015Mark Alan Lovewell If the weather is clear, Sunday night will open with a brilliant harvest full moon rising over Chappaquiddick. But then the moon will fade as Vineyard...
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Saving Logbooks from a Watery Grave
2:08 pm, September 24, 2015Tom Dunlop How do you go about fixing a whaling logbook damaged centuries ago by water? It sounds odd, but among the first things an expert might do is soak the afflicted...
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Edgartown School Memorial Aims to Honor Past and Future
4:01 pm, September 24, 2015 Doris Ward taught language arts at the Edgartown School for 14 years. It was where she worked, but it was also a second home to her. When the old school was torn down in...
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All for One
4:19 pm, September 24, 2015A management consultant looking at Martha’s Vineyard might well light up with the prospect of perpetual employment — provided he or she could figure out where to send the...
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Seasonal Shift
4:21 pm, September 24, 2015From Singing in the Morning, a collection of nature essays by Henry Beetle Hough. When fall begins to come, the moonlight changes its character and grows more nostalgic than...
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Samavesha Is Coming, Are You Ready?
2:35 pm, September 24, 2015Lynne EppelNext week, from Sept. 28 to Oct. 4, the Vineyard Arts Project in Edgartown will be the site of Samavesha 2015, an international Anusara® yoga festival. Samavesha...
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Fifty Years Later, In Cold Blood Still Fresh for Oak Bluffs Man
5:53 pm, September 24, 2015Steve MyrickWhen Truman Capote hunkered down in Kansas to research what would become his book In Cold Blood, Oak Bluffs resident Don Cullivan, an old army buddy of one of the...
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Island Housing Trust, Land Bank Jointly Buy 14.8 Acres
6:18 pm, September 24, 2015Julia WellsThe Island Housing Trust and Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank paid $1.2 million for the property off State Road in Vineyard Haven, with a plan to build rental housing...
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Salt Marsh Restoration Aims to Protect and Monitor Key Habitat
6:25 pm, September 24, 2015Alex ElvinSalt marshes are among the most productive ecosystems on earth. But many are threatened due to erosion and sea level rise. At Sengekontacket a group effort is...
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Cost of Doxycycline Skyrockets
6:31 pm, September 24, 2015Steve MyrickThe retail price of the antibiotic routinely prescribed for treatment of Lyme disease has shot up in recent months, causing consternation among Island medical and...
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Finback Whale Spotted Off North Shore
3:41 pm, September 25, 2015Katie CarrollDavid Tilton and Lynn Silva were out making their typical derby rounds Friday afternoon when they came across a whale in 20 to 25 feet of water just off the...
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Visiting Hours, Service for Gordon Bates Sunday
Thursday, September 24, 2015 - 11:10amGordon (Red) Newell Bates, 83, of Edgartown died Thursday morning, Sept. 24, at the Royal Nursing Home in Falmouth. He was the husband of Eleanor (Ellie) Bates. A...
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Mother-Daughter Leaders at Featherstone Honored With Creative Living Award
5:24 am, September 28, 2015The award this year will go to Francine Kelly and Ann Smith in recognition of their work to promote the arts on Martha’s Vineyard. Ms. Kelly is former executive director at...
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Ceremony Creates Sacred Space, Where the Light Never Fades
9:17 am, September 28, 2015Alison L. MeadFor the loved ones who gathered at the annual Ceremony of Remembrance on Saturday afternoon, their stories may have differed but their pain was the same — the...
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Form and Function, This Art Means Business on the Water
3:50 pm, September 28, 2015Heather HamacekFly fishing lures can be made to look like almost anything — small fish, squid, butterflies. But they all need to have one key ingredient. They need to look...
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Women Empowered Names Vineyard Women of Year
7:00 am, September 29, 2015Steve MyrickJo Ann Murphy, Mary Beth Grady, Allison Burger and Betty Burton have little in common unless you count determination, passion, compassion, selflessness,...
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Static Clears Over Prospect of Better Cell Service for Chappy
3:58 pm, September 29, 2015Steve MyrickA committee charged with exploring better mobile phone coverage to Chappaquidick told the town selectmen Monday it is making progress. A distributed antenna...
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West Tisbury Town Column: Oct. 2
2:16 pm, September 30, 2015John AlleyThe weekend weather was delightful. A smattering of pumpkins, mums and Halloween displays are beginning to appear around town. We now have an early sunset (6:20...
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Aquinnah Town Column: Oct. 2
2:19 pm, September 30, 2015Katie CarrollWhenever there is a baby born into our community we jump for joy, but in addition to the baby, there is a family that gets to take center stage. Aretha Brown,...
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Author Tracks Decline of Fisheries
2:37 pm, September 30, 2015Mark Alan LovewellThree years have passed since the publication of the book, The Mortal Sea, but its impact continues. The 378-page history of the dramatic decline of fish in...
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