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Since state Rep. Dylan Fernandes announced early this month that he will run for state Senate next year, only one candidate has made a public bid for his seat. The seat has been held by a Democrat for at least 35 years but the GOP is determined to get a candidate on the ballot.
Our Christmas wish remained true through the holiday as the shelter was empty.
The West Tisbury select board voted to form a committee to investigate building needs at the town’s public safety building on State Road.
Then out across the ocean, Martha’s Vineyard came in view, and St. Nick suggested landing, to all his reindeer crew, in Ocean Park in Oak Bluffs, when they above it flew.
Robert Solow, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, longtime professor at MIT, winner of the Presidential Medal for Freedom in 2014 and Chilmark summer resident since 1962, died on Dec. 21
Our adoption news is that stray cat Lily has been adopted and has found her forever home for the holidays.