Celtic Music Fans Are Island Impresarios

By NIS KILDEGAARD

A visitor to their woodworking shop near the ice arena finds Gregg Harcourt and Mary Wolverton hard at work, wearing headphones and goggles to protect them from the sounds and sawdust of power drills and planers. When they turn off the machinery to greet their guest, another sound becomes apparent. From speakers mounted throughout the shop come the sweet strains of Irish music - reels and jigs and airs played lightly on the fiddle, pipes and concertina.

Hugh Weisman organized the first Chilmark Road Race in 1978 as a fun run for the kids at the Chilmark Community Center.

U.S. Census Figures Show Poverty Rates on Island Fall Below State Average

By NIS KILDEGAARD

Poverty rates on Martha's Vineyard are lower than the Massachusetts average, according to new statistics issued this week by the U.S. Census Bureau. But the Census numbers, when viewed in detail, paint a stark picture of a middle-class community where income still falls beneath state averages even as housing costs climb to crippling levels.

When the regional high school Minnesingers traveled to Lithuania last year, they were warmly received by their host school, the Lithuanian Youth Centre in the capital city of Vilnius. This year the Vineyard community returned the favor, inviting a group of singers from the renowned Versme choir from the school at Vilnius for a week-long visit to the Vineyard.

Young Voices Invite Cheers of Our Island

By NIS KILDEGAARD

When the regional high school Minnesingers traveled to Lithuania last year, they were warmly received by their host school, the Lithuanian Youth Centre in the capital city of Vilnius. This year the Vineyard community returned the favor, inviting a group of singers from the renowned Versme choir from the school at Vilnius for a week-long visit to the Vineyard.

New Bedford Attack Exposed

Former Solicitor George Leontire Describes Assault on SSA and Islands in His Deposition for Suit Against Boatline

By NIS KILDEGAARD

Over the past two years, the campaign of the city of New Bedford to have its way with the Steamship Authority has seemed, at times, to be filled with strategic contradictions.