Olivia Hull
The arborists at Beetlebung Tree Care hope their treetop handiwork doesn’t cause an accident this week.
His family members and friends got inoculated at their doctors or druggists.
An online application that’s taking the high school by storm this school year is making it even more difficult to be a teen. Ask.fm, a website and online application that allows users to ask each other questions anonymously, arrived on the Island late this summer through Twitter, just in time to greet the first day of school.
Rising costs of special education services and cuts to federal grants are driving a dramatic increase in education spending for Vineyard schools in the coming fiscal year.
Schools superintendent Dr. James H. Weiss presented an operating budget to the all-Island school committee Wednesday night totaling $5.4 million.
A faded yellow building that once housed the Oak Bluffs laundromat may become the future site of a bowling alley.
Reid (Sam) Dunn, the architect who developed the Tisbury Marketplace in Vineyard Haven, presented a preliminary proposal to open a bowling alley, restaurant and bar on Uncas avenue to the town selectmen Tuesday.
“This is totally informational,” Mr. Dunn said. “We wanted to let you know that the project is in the works.”
When he leads a service, Reverend Bill Clark, 61, wears a starched white hat and a rainbow-colored stole. He walks up and down the aisle during the hymns with broad strides, his chin tilted upwards, his voice easily filling the cozy wooden church.
“Whatever you are going through in this life, my friends, you are not going through alone,” he told his new congregants, the members of the Unitarian Universalist Society in Vineyard Haven, at a recent Sunday morning service.