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Beth Larsen was all dolled up Wednesday night.
If she had only known, she might have worn shorts and running shoes.
It’s been more than 30 years since a Vineyard resident represented the Island at the State House. This year, four Vineyard candidates are looking to end that drought.
Daniel Larkosh of Vineyard Haven, Tim Lasker of Chilmark and Roger Wey of Oak Bluffs have announced plans to run in the Democratic primary this September. Jacob Ferreira of Vineyard Haven is running as an unenrolled candidate, which guarantees him a place in the general election.
They join four other candidates from the district, which also covers Gosnold, Nantucket and parts of Falmouth.
Two West Tisbury property owners have agreed to pay $6,760 in fines for violating the state Wetlands Protection Act.
Stephen Rattner and Maureen White, who own property on Obed Daggett Road, were cited by the state Department of Environmental Protection for cutting violations in a vegetated wetland on the North Shore. The DEP issued a press release about the penalties this week.
A plan to build eight affordable homes on eight acres off State Road in West Tisbury drew a number of neighborhood critics at a public hearing Mond
It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. So said the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde.
It was once a battleground for one of the most heated and divisive fights in the history of Oak Bluffs.
It has been five years since the dust settled over the proposal by Connecticut developer Corey Kupersmith to build a private 18-hole golf course in the Southern Woodlands, the largest tract of undeveloped forest left in town.