Louisa Hufstader
Beth Wike has a mission: to make Martha’s Vineyard a place where people with disabilities can have the same experiences as anyone else on the Island.
About 500 young people on Martha’s Vineyard are living with one or more of a wide range of disabilities that can limit their access to healthy recreation, according to a report presented last week.
More than 50 Tisbury employees who belong to the town’s general union are working under a new contract that was signed last week, nearly four months after the previous three-year agreement expired June 30.
The Yard opens its winter arts season at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse Nov. 8 and Nov. 9 with two performances of Pang!, a theatre work about food insecurity by performance artist Dan Froot.
Chilmark sisters Allison and Sarah Flanders, former employees of Chilmark Chocolates, plan to open a new small-batch chocolatier with money raised largely from the Island community.
Tisbury selectmen got their first look Tuesday at what could be the future of Packer’s marine terminal on Beach Road as a support terminal for an offshore wind farm planned for waters south of the Island.