Affordable Housing Report Card

Affordable housing continues to be a pressing issue on the Island, and the past few weeks have seen developments on more than one front.

Bradley Square

Two Islands, One World

Here on this Island so often derided as home to the elite, many residents have long devoted energy and charity to help the people of Haiti, an island country so often noted for the being the poorest in the hemisphere.

Protecting the Copeland District

Famous for its distinctive Victorian style, Oak Bluffs is a town of parks ringed by neighborhoods of Gothic Carpenter cottages and homes, their porches situated with views across parklands or the sea. As many people know, the history of this architectural style and village design is rooted in the Methodist camp meetings of the mid and late nineteenth century.

One Ocean, One Island

A Decade Ends

Christmas 2009

Six days ago the Polar Express raced up from the mid-Atlantic, streaking a blizzardy path from Washington, D.C. to New Jersey, Long Island, Cape Cod, the Vineyard, Nantucket and finally Nova Scotia. Travelers were stranded, ferries were cancelled and holiday retailers, already worried in the economic recession, worried even more.