The silver and gold still sparkles in the afternoon sun like it did that summer in 1966, when the young college student from Boston with long blond hair stepped off the ferry, walked into Vineyard Haven and began selling her handmade jewelry on the Island for the first time.

Selectmen Launch Water Company Probe

By MAX HART

The discovery of a $1.5 million surplus in the Tisbury water department budget has prompted the town selectmen to launch an internal investigation, as they try to shed light on an array of questions about management and financial practices within the department.

It is the kind of sunny spring day that lures young minds out through classroom windows onto the playground, but the seventh and eighth graders in Jonah Maidoff's social studies class at the Martha's Vineyard Public Charter School are decidedly focused on the issue at hand.

A busy week in Chilmark began Monday with voters moving briskly through the annual town meeting, continued Wednesday with high turnout at the ballo

Chilmark Voters Gather For Town Meeting, Election

By MAX HART

Annual Meeting

When Chilmark voters convene for their annual town meeting on Monday night, they will take up a slim 22-article warrant, a lean operating budget for the coming fiscal year and a short spending list consisting of mostly housekeeping items.

In other words, nothing shocking in this town that prides itself on old Yankee thrift.

Denys Wortman Wins Handily In Race for Tisbury Selectman

By MAX HART

Easily beating out a crowded field in the race for selectman, Denys Wortman won the seat by a four-to-one margin in the Tisbury annual town election Tuesday. Mr. Wortman received 399 votes, while the four other candidates trailed far behind. Jamie Douglas finished with 104 votes, George Balco had 89, Nancy Hall captured 88 and Jared Meader had 46.