Julia Wells
Martha’s Vineyard Community Services executive director Julie Fay will retire next year, the nonprofit announced Tuesday. Ms. Fay has been at the helm of the umbrella social services organization since 2013.
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the incidence of tick-borne illness, bow hunters on Martha’s Vineyard this year will be offered a monetary incentive to take additional female deer.
Early Wednesday afternoon, Ralph and Cynthia DeFelice saw and photographed a coyote swimming between two of the Elizabeth islands.
Martha’s Vineyard schoolchildren and others joined a day of activism around the globe Friday to protest inaction in the face of a climate change crisis.
Eric Voshell, 39, was the victim of a homicide after he and two other men were shot outside a bar. The alleged perpetrator has turned himself in, the Bristol County district attorney’s office confirmed.
Solemn ceremonies marking the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were held around the Island Wednesday morning. Flags flew at half mast in every Island town.