Police arrested an Oak Bluffs man on drunk driving charges after the driver made a ruckus downtown, causing injury to multiple people and damaging a number of properties. Witnesses describe a chaotic scene where the driver nearly ran over an elderly woman on a street meant for pedestrians. 68-year-old Oak Bluffs resident David Murphy was […]
The Oak Bluffs Police Department is searching for whoever put up signs supporting white nationalists. The two signs shown on the department’s online post, one reading “strong families strong nations” and the other reading “America first,” have links to the white supremacist group Patriot Front. On the Patriot Front’s website, the group packages its messaging […]
Thomas Dresser sets his new book, “Martha’s Vineyard in the Roaring Twenties: Radicals and Rascals,” securely within the larger context of world history. It offers us a sweeping, micro/macro perspective of the decade sitting between the end of the First World War and the beginning of the Great Depression. The chapters are not sequential, nor […]