Mandy Locke
Five years ago, Kim Angell found herself one step away from being a welfare mom.
"My husband disappeared. I had no job, three children under the age of six, and it was January," Ms. Angell said this week. "I had no money to pay my mortgage, let alone child care."
Four-Town Refuse District Takes Initiatives to Put Financial Affairs in Better Order
By MANDY LOCKE
Heeding their auditor's stern warnings, the Martha's Vineyard Regional Refuse and Resource Recovery District is doing some financial housekeeping this month.
In the weeks following auditor John J. O'Brien's report of sloppy bookkeeping and incomplete records, the refuse district personnel subcommittee is shuffling administrative staff roles.
Storm Buries Vineyard Under Tons of Snow
Northeaster Strikes on Monday, Slowing Island Life to Crawl
By MANDY LOCKE
Mother Nature showed little mercy this week - bringing the Vineyard to a standstill beneath mounds of snow and whipping winds.
From slightly before 8 o'clock Monday morning into the wee hours of Tuesday, snow buried all that did not move and slowed to a crawl the few who did venture out in the blizzard-like conditions.
A&P Sells Both Vineyard Supermarkets in Nine-Store Deal with Stop & Shop
By MANDY LOCKE
After more than eight decades of selling groceries to Vineyarders, the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P) will abandon its Island foothold - selling both the Edgartown and Vineyard Haven stores to the Stop & Shop Supermarket Company.
The transaction - together with the sale of four others in the state - is part of a larger move by the A&P to withdraw from all operations in Massachusetts.
Mansion House Project Is Revised; Commission Drops Plans for Review
By MANDY LOCKE
The Martha's Vineyard Commission agreed last night, after a brief discussion, to meet Tisbury Inn owners halfway - voting unanimously to not require a fresh review of a reconstruction project that stirred controversy in recent weeks because of design changes following MVC approval of the project.
Advisory Committee Grapples with Two Massive House Plans
By MANDY LOCKE
The Edgartown Ponds Area Advisory Committee this week began its review of two new house proposals for the margins of Edgartown Great Pond - the latest in the steady stream of massive home projects hitting Edgartown these days.
Both 10,000-square-foot houses, if approved by the conservation commission, would occupy heavily wooded lots on the western side of Kanomika Neck - a narrow strip of land jutting into Edgartown Great Pond.