Updated @ 4:30 pm After going to mediation and failing to come to terms, the Martha’s Vineyard Education Association (MVEA) and the school committee remain at odds in their contract negotiations. Along with compensation, the teachers union and the committee also disagree over the attempt to renegotiate the health insurance plans of school employees, according […]
“In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside 24 hours.” –Mark Twain Mark Twain must have been in New England when he said that! I lose count of the types of weather we have in a day, but I counted about 10 different birds at my feeders this week they […]
On Dec. 4, I attended a celebration of life for Kent and Maureen Healy. They were wonderful people who contributed so much to the entire Island community that the Ag Hall was filled with several hundred of the people they helped or touched in some way. I’m not going to tell you their story, it’s […]