For Vineyarders, going out to dinner or enjoying a large meal can serve as a celebratory part of the day. But for an increasing number of Islanders, like West Tisbury resident Mark Baumhofer, preparing or ordering food has also become an exercise in avoiding some of the most common available ingredients mammalian meat, dairy, […]
Heard on Main Street: Don’t make old people mad. We don’t like being old in the first place, so it doesn’t take much to tick us off. Liz White’s “Othello” is a production of the Shearer Summer Theater, filmed 1962–66 on Martha’s Vineyard. This special treat will be shown tomorrow, Friday, August 11, at 7:30 […]
Representatives of the MV Tick Project Patrick Roden-Reynolds and Dick Johnson held an educational talk with about a dozen attendees this week on rising lone star tick populations on the Island and about the threat of so-called “larval tick bombs.” The event was held Tuesday at Aquinnah Town Hall and sponsored by Aquinnah […]
An invasive species of tick known as the Asian longhorned tick has been found on Martha’s Vineyard for the first time. Tick expert Patrick Roden-Reynolds and his colleagues were sampling for deer tick nymphs at a private property in Chilmark on June 9 when they found the longhorn tick. “We happened to pick up a […]
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