West Tisbury News

Illness presumed to be swine flu has resulted in the absence of an average of more than 100 students each day of the past week from the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School.

Julie Kimball used to describe this time of year as shooting along like a roller coaster.

The milkweed pods are breaking, And the bits of silken down Float off upon the autumn breeze Across the meadows brown.

Lambert's Cove Road, between the EC Cottle lumber yard and the Lambert's Cove Beach parking lot is closed to all traffic - motorized, pedaled, or pedestrian - for two weeks to allow for repair of the road, according to the West Tisbury superintendent of streets Richard Olsen.

Ever since a vast tract of Martha's Vineyard forest died two years ago, visitors who stumbled upon the graveyard of gray stalks have called it eerie, bizarre, and sad.

Jack Lionette and the daily leadership calendar. The Island Children's School in West Tisbury was a busy place on Wednesday morning, as two to five-year-olds spread throughout two schoolrooms went about their daily preschool routines.

Oct. 16, Douglas C. and Doris D. Ward sold 5 Mullen Way to Thomas W. Littlejohn 3rd and Margaret H. Littlejohn for $2,400,000. Oak Bluffs Oct.

The chill is about to run through our veins as well as our bones. Halloween is next weekend and the Island is gearing up for a festival of spooky.

Last Thursday, Oct. 15, the second annual Massachusetts Poetry Festival kicked off with simultaneous readings at eight venues across the state, including Martha's Vineyard.

Carly Simon is calling from her Lambert's Cove home to talk about her new CD, to share philosophies and impressions.

Sunday was a perfect day for inside chores and that's what we did. Mike cleaned his shop and I think I peeled every apple in West Tisbury.

To dredge or not to dredge? That is the question currently being bandied about in West Tisbury.

Music, arts and enrichment programs in the Island schools are on the block for downsizing as the Vineyard schools superintendent tries to craft a budget for the coming year with little or no increase over last year.

The rich, colorful paintings of artist Ken Vincent and the painted seascapes and landscapes of Ray Ellis capture almost reverent scenes on the Island, helping the viewer appreciate the essence of the Vineyard.

This month, eight writers are living and writing at the Point Way Inn in Edgartown - the first full session of the Martha's Vineyard Writers Residency.

Members of the West Tisbury board of selectmen and town planning board held a joint meeting last week for a single purpose: to review and discuss the Martha's Vineyard Commission draft Island Plan.

David Nathans, the new executive director of the Martha's Vineyard Museum, has committed to a three-year tenure, but Mr.

We've gone from tee-shirts to turtlenecks and back again. Typical fall weather. Sunday morning when Mike and I walked our dogs at Sepiessa, the landscape sparkled and the pond was high over the beach.

Spencer Binney, 27, of West Tisbury will be arraigned in Edgartown District Court on October 23 on a charge of cultivating marijuana.

Now the ferns in the forest park, in the back of the house, have turned bronze and are slowly sinking back into the ground, as if getting ready for a long rest.