The bloom of toxic red tide that closed shellfish beds from Maine to Nantucket spared the Vineyard this week, fading off the eastern shore of Chapp

After three public hearings, four design plans and five months of intense debate, Chilmark voters next week will have their say in deciding the future of the Middle Line Road project.

From Hills of Menemsha to Oak Bluffs, Hungry Caterpillars Munch Away Leaves

By IAN FEIN

They're back.

A caterpillar outbreak that left large swaths of trees completely bare of leaves last summer has returned to feast on Vineyard foliage.

Across the Island this weekend millions of tiny green winter moth inchworms - which have been munching away on oak, apple and maple leaves - dangled from branches on silky threads to announce their uninvited arrival.

The raised letters on the silver badge Kaleena Strelecki wears to work most days says Tisbury Police, but you could make an argument that this traffic cop who just graduated from the Martha's Vineyard Regional High school has earned some other badges as well.

The worst bloom of toxic red tide in the history of New England closed in on the Vineyard yesterday after shellfish beds were shut down from Maine

As the small island of Amity - er, Martha's Vineyard - found out this weekend, when it comes to the movie Jaws, there are fanatics, and then there are fin-atics.

"There is no other movie I would fly hundreds of miles to go celebrate," a giddy Yvette Pryor of Augusta, Ga., said on Sunday. "It's the ultimate movie."