Mandy Locke
Curtis Jones died June 22 at the age of 97. The Gazette published a profile of him in November 2005; it appears again here.
“You know, I used to live there,” I told my in-laws after they mentioned hoping to visit Martha’s Vineyard during a New England vacation.
So many memories washed over me. Stopping to swim in the sound on the way home from work each August day. The ferries that without fail made me queasy. Running the trail at Fulling Mill Brook. That lady Virginia who sang Material Girl each week at Season’s karaoke night. A bay scallop melting in my mouth.
Wyc and Corinne Grousbeck are having a few friends to their Edgartown Great Pond home this month to talk shop.
Boston Celtics coaching legend Arnold (Red) Auerbach and his former offensive star K.C. Jones will be spinning tales about the Celtics eight-straight National Basketball Association (NBA) championship streak back in the 1950s and 1960s - educating and entertaining the Celtics' newest majority owners.
Changes Could Threaten Plan for Housing, MVC Is Warned
By MANDY LOCKE
As the Martha's Vineyard Commission (MVC) concluded its review of a 60-unit affordable rental development in Edgartown, town leaders warned commissioners that tampering with the proposal would jeopardize the project.
"Some conditions placed on this could delay or kill the project," Alan Gowell, a member of the Edgartown affordable housing committee, told commissioners Thursday night.
No More Picking: Vineyard's Last Landfill Closes; Some Mourn It
By MANDY LOCKE
The days of dump picking, finding a treasure in another man's trash, drew to a close on the Island this week.
Tips Fail to Lead Police to Baby's Mother
By MANDY LOCKE
One week after a baby was abandoned on the steps of St. Augustine's Church in Vineyard Haven, police have still not found the infant's mother.
"We're not much further along than we were last week, but we're still aggressively working on it," said State Police Sgt. Jeff Stone, a detective assigned to the Cape and Islands district attorney's office.