From 5 to 10:30 pm last Saturday, Oak Bluffs’ Ritz Cafe and Dos Más restaurants hosted the seventh annual Ladyfest MV, a fundraiser concert featuring talented female musicians and local acts. Ladyfest, held around October for Domestic Violence Awareness Month, has raised funds each year for Connect to End Violence, an M.V. Community Services program […]
“All these lovely tokens of September days are here, with summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.” –Helen Hunt Jackson This quote seems to describe our September, which gave us many summerlike days, along with the happy relief of less crowding on the Island. I looked up Helen Hunt Jackson, and it turns […]
Ladyfest MV Music Festival is back and ready to raise awareness and funds for Connect to End Violence, a M.V. Community Services program. The mission of Connect is to reduce domestic and sexual violence on Martha’s Vineyard by changing the social norms through education, advocacy, and community mobilization, and providing crisis intervention services for victims. […]
A small group of Islanders gathered at the seawall on Beach Road in Oak Bluffs on Thursday, August 31, to remember those who died from an overdose. The annual Luminaria at the Seawall event was put together by staff at the Red House Peer Recovery Support Center, and coincided with International Overdose Awareness Day. Participants […]
On Thursday, Sept. 14, from 1 to 5:30 pm, the West Tisbury library holds its second Human Library Program (HLP). People are “lent out” for conversations on various topics, and it provides them with an opportunity to talk with folks they might not ordinarily come in contact with. This HLP program will focus on addiction, […]