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Please Adopt Us
2:45 pm, January 7, 2015It looks like Halloween in the cat room at the shelter. Black cats everywhere!
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Robert Sbriglio and His Wife Created Health Care Centers in Connecticut
Wednesday, January 7, 2015 - 2:52pmRobert Sbriglio Sr. died peacefully on March 28 surrounded by his loving and dedicated wife Margaret and his family at his home in Fenwick, Old Saybrook, Conn. He was...
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Billy the Bard Gives Richie the Third a Boost
2:58 pm, January 7, 2015Now is the winter of our discontent. These classic lines from Shakespeare’s play Richard III will presumably be said by Chris Roberts when he stars as the legendary hunchbacked...
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Changing of the Guard at Tisbury Fire Department
3:40 pm, January 7, 2015Ivy AsheTisbury fire Lieut. Joseph K. Tierney was sworn in as assistant fire chief by the selectmen Tuesday, taking over for Russell Maciel, who is retiring from the department...
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Aquinnah Approves Measures to Close Budget Gap
5:08 am, January 8, 2015Alex ElvinAquinnah voters opted Wednesday to fix a budget shortfall without resorting to department budget cuts. About 50 voters braved the cold to convene a special town meeting.
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Large Fire Drill to Take Place at Lampost
5:21 pm, January 8, 2015Olivia Hull If you see smoke billowing out of the Lampost on Sunday, do not be alarmed. The Oak Bluffs bar and nightclub will be the site of a major fire drill Sunday morning...
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Finding Island Inspiration and a Place to Gather
5:58 pm, January 8, 2015The following is excerpted from an oral history interview done with Edward W. Brooke by Linsey Lee of the Martha’s Vineyard Museum in August of 2007. Mr. Brooke was on the...
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A Legacy of Conservation
6:01 pm, January 8, 2015Eleven acres and a dream. That was how it all began in 1959 when Henry Beetle Hough and Elizabeth Bowie Hough bought the old ice house property in Edgartown and launched the...
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Slice of Island Economy
6:04 pm, January 8, 2015A Rolling Stone Gathers No Mozzarella — that was the headline for an article about Flatbread, written soon after the restaurant opened on July 3, 2010.
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No Barriers to Big Dreams Thanks to Trailblazing Political Rock Star
6:06 pm, January 8, 2015Skip Finley In summer, the slam of the screen door announced visitors before they called out the name of who they came to see. It was always special company when it was Uncle Ed.
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In Praise of a Mentor Whose Heart Was Always With the People
5:40 pm, January 8, 2015Ronald H. Rappaport The death of former U.S. Sen. Edward W. Brooke comes as a personal loss for me. I had the distinct honor of working for Senator Brooke in Washington, D.C.,...
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Tribe Expands Holdings With Real Estate Purchase
6:18 pm, January 8, 2015Alex ElvinIn its first land purchase in more than a decade, the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) has added 17 acres to its approximately 480 acres of land holdings. The...
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Always a Moving Experience, Trip Knows How to Deliver the Goods
6:18 pm, January 8, 2015Mollie Doyle The same year Clarence A. (Trip) Barnes 3rd, started his business, Clarence A. Barnes Moving and Storage, he found three people dead in three weeks, all out on...
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Flatbread Will Shutter Its Vineyard Operation
5:40 pm, January 8, 2015Julia WellsFlatbread, the popular wood-fired pizza franchise near the Martha’s Vineyard Airport that has hosted fundraisers, family dance parties and concerts, will not reopen...
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Vineyard Remembers Sen. Edward W. Brooke
5:45 pm, January 3, 2015Sara Brown Senator Brooke was remembered this week as the Island’s own — a man whose summers were spent at his home on Nashawena Park with family and friends, a skilled tennis...
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Search is on for New MVC Director
9:57 am, January 10, 2015Olivia Hull A nationwide search has begun for a new executive director for the Martha’s Vineyard Commission, with commissioners finalizing a job description this week. Current...
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After 36 Years, it's Last Call for the Jacksons at the Ocean View
2:57 pm, January 11, 2015Alison L. MeadSaturday was the last night at the Ocean View for the ownership of Ron and Peggy Jackson who have owned the popular bar and restaurant for 36 years. The place was...
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End of a Chapter for Chilmark Library's Biggest Advocate
5:57 am, January 12, 2015Alex ElvinAs chairman of Chilmark library trustees for 17 years, Norman Freed helped transform one of the smallest libraries on the Island into a hub for community events and a...
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Thomas McKenzie Captained Many Yachts During His Career
Monday, January 12, 2015 - 1:25pmThomas W. McKenzie of East Orleans, formerly of Westwood and Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and Cornwall, Conn., died on Jan. 6. He was 66.Tom was born on Jan. 2, 1949 the son...
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Marianne Dorrit Pfau Designed Family Home on the Lagoon
Monday, January 12, 2015 - 1:35pmMarianne Dorrit Pfau of Vineyard Haven died on Friday, Jan. 2. She was 96.She was an only child born to Edith Mandl Willner and Hugo Willner in Vienna, Austria, in...
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