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Hospital Issues Zika Virus Alert
5:46 pm, February 2, 2016Steve MyrickThe Martha’s Vineyard Hospital has issued a health alert concerning the Zika virus, asking pregnant women who have traveled to certain countries, including Brazil,...
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Mark Martin, Founder of Eco MV, Had Big Heart and Quick Wit
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 - 10:54pmMark Craig Martin of Vineyard Haven died on Jan. 1 at the Winchester Hospital following a coronary arrest. He was 49.Mark was born Dec. 1, 1966, to Ginger Hunt Martin...
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Colin Gear Loved to Laugh, Spent Happy Times on the Vineyard
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 - 11:19pmColin P.M. Gear of Stoneham died on Friday, Jan. 29. He was 20.Born in Winchester on March 20, 1995, he was the son of Kelly J. McGuiggin of Vineyard Haven and Ralph...
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Bill Morancy Shared His Enthusiasm with Others, Helped Establish WVVY
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 - 11:34pm“We’ll never run out of ideas,” Bill Morancy would often exult at the end of taping a television show called Talking About Movies for Onion River Public Access. It...
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Frank Durgin Led MIT Wind Tunnel Project
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 9:45amFrank Herman Durgin of Chebeague Island, Me., associate director of the Memorial Wind Tunnel at MIT from 1966 to 1992 and a longtime Aquinnah seasonal visitor, died...
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Warm Winter in the Garden
8:48 pm, February 3, 2016Lynne Irons Don’t get me wrong. I could not be happier, personally, for our non-winter. We have to admit, however, it is rather odd.
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For Weather Forecast, Turn to Sheep, Snakes, or Birds
9:23 pm, February 3, 2016Suzan Bellincampin as woodchucks or whistlepigs, are marmots that belong to a group of large ground squirrels in the order Rodentia.
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The Tale of the Thick-Billed Murre
9:33 pm, February 3, 2016Robert A. CulbertImagine that you are a thick-billed murre.
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West Tisbury Town Column: Feb. 5
10:21 pm, February 3, 2016John S. AlleyThe groundhog did not see his shadow so we are in for an early spring. However the days are getting longer and now it is light until 5:30 p.m. Early risers have...
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Chilmark Town Column: Feb. 5
10:25 pm, February 3, 2016Katie CarrollKatie Carroll at your service, taking responsibility for the timely and accurate sharing of newsy-goodness for the town of Chilmark. Let’s start this week off...
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Aquinnah Town Column: Feb. 5
10:32 pm, February 3, 2016June D. ManningAnother mild week with temperatures in the 50s most days with chilly nights. Perhaps it is because Aquinnah highway superintendent Jay Smalley purchased a snow...
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Oak Bluffs Town Column: Feb. 5
10:59 pm, February 3, 2016Skip FinleyIt’s so unlikely that Oak Bluffs, the biggest tiny town on the rock, would have made valuable contributions to black American history. With the demeaning political...
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On Chappy: Feb. 5
11:15 pm, February 3, 2016Peter WellsThis is a case of good news/bad news. The good news is that we are getting the repairs to the Chappy slip done before things fall apart. The bad news is that the...
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Vineyard Haven Town Column: Feb. 5
11:45 pm, February 3, 2016Nancy GardellaThe Big Chili contest has come and gone for another year. Held last weekend at the P.A. Club in Oak Bluffs, this most popular annual Island event drew 1,800...
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Hospital Corners
5:23 pm, February 4, 2016It has been said that the hospital which stood at this place was the first marine hospital in the United States.
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Words Can Wiggle, But Can the Planet?
5:57 pm, February 4, 2016Edward HoaglandPhone booth, bookworm, crowbait, goose as a verb, horse-trading, horse-faced, cowpies or emotionally cowed, and other farm-based figures of speech like kicking...
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Hail the Hokule'a, Twin Hulls of Heaven
5:59 pm, February 4, 2016Sam Low To a modern sailor’s eye, she appears strange. Her twin hulls are joined by laminated wooden crossbeams.
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Coming to a Big Screen Near You: Chappaquiddick the Movie
6:03 pm, February 4, 2016Steve MyrickA Los Angeles movie company is currently casting actors for a film that will chronicle the story of the late Sen. Edward (Ted) Kennedy and the accident on...
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At Station Menemsha, Always Ready
6:04 pm, February 4, 2016Alex ElvinEvery morning, members of Coast Guard Station Menemsha head down to the West Dock, past the old fishing shacks on Basin Road, to begin their day’s work. The station’s...
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Unconditional Love is Always the Answer with Children
6:05 pm, February 4, 2016Lani Carney Looking back, I was too young to be a professor and the man enrolled in my child psychology course was too young to be at war.
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