Early Days of Apartheid Shaped Belief System for Chief Justice
By IAN FEIN
She first came to the United States as a high school exchange student from apartheid-era South Africa in 1962, near the height of the civil rights movement.
At a young age, Margaret H. Marshall, who is today the chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, witnessed marches in the street, listened to debates in Congress, and - in her words – saw democracy working before her eyes.
Energy Zone Raises Doubts
Feasibility of Proposed Area Close to Tuckernuck May Be Years Away; Need Grows for Clean Energy
By IAN FEIN
Selectmen across the Island this spring hailed a proposal to designate an area southeast of Chappaquiddick as a renewable energy zone, where they would promote offshore projects to supply the Vineyard and Nantucket with clean electric power.
Two Tidal Projects Gain Speed in Energy Development Race
By IAN FEIN
While the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm continues to grab headlines and attract political attention, two underwater tidal energy projects that flank either side of the Vineyard are quietly progressing.
Summer Beach Party Culture Endures
By JIM HICKEY
It is 2 a.m. on South Beach in Edgartown on an overcast and chilly evening in early June.
Commission Delays Vote on Oyster Bar
Land Use Subcommittee Recommends Against Oak Bluffs Eatery Expansion, Leaving Full Commission in Doubt
By IAN FEIN
The Martha's Vineyard Commission last Thursday unanimously approved a downtown Edgartown subdivision and a members-only tennis and racquetball club off State Road in West Tisbury.
Island Plan Moves Ahead with Forums to Provoke More Public Involvement
By IAN FEIN
Roughly 200 new homes are built on the Vineyard each year, many of them out of scale with surrounding neighborhoods or sprawling into once rural and open areas.
Eelgrass beds, which provide breeding habitat for fish and shellfish, have nearly disappeared from Edgartown Great Pond and Sengekontacket Pond in the last decade, and have decreased alarmingly - by over 50 per cent - in Tashmoo and Lagoon Ponds.