“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget the way you made them feel.” –Maya Angelou, poet and author The Steamship Authority has announced that all Islanders will travel for free on all ferries from now on. This change will begin on April […]
To the Editor: On February 7th, a swift moving fire consumed my family’s home on Main Street in Vineyard Haven. For hours, firefighters from all over the Island valiantly battled the blaze. If you were on-Island that day, you may have seen or smelled it. I’m told the smoke was visible from miles away. I […]
Nancy Lucille Cox, a Tisbury resident since 1969, died peacefully at home on Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022, surrounded by family members. She was 86. An honors graduate in speech and drama from Oberlin College, Nancy spent much of her adult life performing in professional, academic, and community theater nationally, abroad, and on the Island. She […]
Heard on Main Street: Don’t be yourself be someone nicer. If you know that March is Women’s History Month, you can appreciate why the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse is honoring these film divas for March, in movies from 1939 to the 1950s. MJ Munafo says the plans are for Bette Davis to appear in either […]
February starts on Tuesday, we are now one step closer to, what? I don’t even know what to look forward to anymore. Maybe this omicron wave will ebb in February? Maybe there will be a fun thing happening somewhere that we can go to safely. Wouldn’t that be nice? I hope everyone is managing to […]