From as long as she can remember, NaDaizja Bolling spent her summers on Martha’s Vineyard. Raised near Boston, she went off to Syracuse University to study public health, but came back to the Vineyard in the summer. After college, she worked at the Harvard Business School, researching a book chronicling the careers of Black business […]
Islanders may be seeing the return of the former Aquinnah Shop Restaurant this summer. The news was revealed by Aquinnah Land Initiative (ALI) president Wenonah Madison during an Aquinnah Select Board meeting on Tuesday, although she did not specify what type of plans are in the works for the property. “There are plans to open […]
Groundwater seeping through the Aquinnah Cliffs may be causing erosion, and the town’s climate and energy committee is pursuing a state grant to evaluate ways to slow that erosion down. Committee chair Bill Lake says officials are yet to apply, but that he has in mind $250,000 to research and test anti-erosion methods. The grant […]
The saying “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” is perhaps outdated and overused, but it’s the perfect descriptor for Island artist Althea Freeman-Miller. Laurie Miller, Freeman-Miller’s late father, was a logo designer and an oil painter. Some of his work is probably pretty recognizable to people in the Island community. He designed the […]
The Native Land Conservancy, a Mashpee-based and Native American-run conservation group, has purchased a property on Martha’s Vineyard and plans to hold it until the Aquinnah Land Initiative is granted