West Tisbury News

Improved cell phone service will becoming to West Tisbury after the town zoning board of appeals approved a special permit for a tower off New Lane, near Tisbury Great Pond.

Todd Ruggere sat by himself at the bar of the Plane View Restaurant at Martha's Vineyard Airport.

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The annual Taste of the Vineyard dinner and auction Saturday night turned into a tribute to artist Ray Ellis, who has raised more than $1 million for Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust over more than two decades.

With a whoop and a holler, and a good deal of grunting, a crowd of smiling boat enthusiasts hoisted a replica whaleboat out of the Gannon & Benjamin Marine Railway boat shed Saturday afternoon, hauled it down to the water, and after an impromptu outfitting with oars, shoved her off into Vineyard Haven Harbor.

Farmers market season begins on Martha's Vineyard this weekend with the return of the Saturday market at the West Tisbury Grange.

Robert Grant and William Balz of Weston have purchased the 16,000-square-foot office building at 27 Strathmore Rd. in Natick for $1.95 million.

With construction about halfway complete on the new West Tisbury Library project, town leaders raised concerns this week about a rapidly dwindling contingency fund for the project.

Carol Carrick, the award-winning author of more than four dozen children's books and books for young adults, many with a Vineyard setting, died unexpectedly at the Martha's Vineyard Hospital on June 6. She was 78 and lived in West Tisbury.

The 33 eighth graders at the West Tisbury School aren't the only ones moving on to high school.

Sunday past was my idea of a perfect summer day: sunny, not humid and just a hint of a breeze to keep you comfortable.

Are you going to the Taste? Anyone have extra tickets for the Taste? What are you wearing to the Taste? These are among the most popular questions in Edgartown right now.

The summer season has started and it's supposed to be busy from here on out and oddly there is really nothing to report this week.

Don't forget the M.V. Chamber Music Society is performing Passamezzo Moderno, instrumental music from 1530 to 1830, at the M.V. Hebrew Center at 7:30 pm tonight.

I was feeling quite nostalgic after reading Soo Whiting's Bird News last week. When Mike and I first moved into our house, it was commonplace to hear whippoorwills in our woods all summer long.

Martha's Vineyard Regional High School students are not choosing items on the school cafeteria menu that meet state and federal guidelines.

It is not unusual for Vineyarders to report sighting the balloon-shaped sail of Portuguese man-of-wars in the summer months.

A Pembroke man accused of filching four art prints from an exhibitor at the Vineyard Artisan Festivals over the weekend was arraigned Monday on a charge of larceny over $250, according to documents filed in Edgartown District Court.

The Vineyard Gazette posted on Facebook at about 5 p.m. Tuesday that up-Island NSTAR customers who had been without power for hours were expected to have full service resumed soon, once faulty equipment was replaced on South Road in West Tisbury.

The project is anticipated to be completed by January 2014 and will more than double the library's current size, to approximately 13,000 square feet from 5,640 square feet.