Aaron Wilson
Oak Bluffs Association director Christine Todd told selectmen Tuesday that closing Circuit avenue and part of Kennebec avenue to vehicles on summer Sundays was well received by visitors.
High winds made for an uncharacteristically slow Columbus Day weekend as the 75th Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby heads into its final week.
After a dismal summer for commercial traffic, the Martha’s Vineyard Airport saw a slight rebound in September, director Geoff Freeman told airport commissioners Thursday.
Tick-borne illnesses on Martha’s Vineyard have reached possible record highs this year, as lone star ticks and their larvae spread in the Island’s outermost reaches.
Even without striped bass in the derby this year, the number of fish crossing the scales each day routinely reaches triple digits.
Lone star ticks — and thousands of their larvae — have overrun the town of Aquinnah, biologist and tick expert Richard Johnson told Aquinnah selectmen Wednesday.