Remy Tumin
Take a look at a Vineyard book shelf and you’re likely to find The History of Martha’s Vineyard by Charles Banks or Moraine to Marsh by Anne Hale. For conservationists, Aldo Leopold’s book A Sand County Almanac published in 1949 is equally iconic. “I think anybody can be inspired by what he wrote,” Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation director Adam Moore said this week. “It’s one of the key pieces of literature in our environmental history in this country.”
Fear, anger, loneliness and confusion are all emotions often associated with people with mental illness. But those emotions can run just as strongly in loved ones and caregivers.
An educational course beginning next week aims to give family members the tools and support to cope with the challenges of caring for those with mental illness. The free course, called Family-to-Family, is sponsored by the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Cape Cod and will be held in Vineyard Haven.
Verizon customers on the Vineyard continue to experience high-speed internet outages across the Island due to damaged equipment in Falmouth, the phone company confirmed Thursday.
Phil Santoro said the outage is due to a “weather-related roof collapse” at a Verizon facility in Falmouth on Saturday. The total number of affected customers is still unknown, he said.
Internet service has been down since Monday for many Verizon customers, including Vineyard Scripts in Vineyard Haven. Information has been scant and hard to come by, pharmacy owner David Perzanowki said.
How, when and where to move the Gay Head Light, along with the money to pay for it: these are all active topics for discussion by a newly-formed committee charged with developing a plan to relocate the historic brick tower.
The lighthouse now stands 50 feet from an eroding cliff at the westernmost edge of the Vineyard.
A 12-member committee appointed by the town selectmen last month held its first meeting Wednesday, which was mostly organizational.
The Harbor View Hotel was aglow Monday night as revelers ushered in the New Year at the Edgartown hotel's annual bash. It was a night of food, glitz, champagne and even cotton candy.
After the years following the recession that began in 2008, when the Vineyard as well as the nation remained mired in day-to-day survival, 2012 felt like a shift in a new direction. There was a slight uptick in economic optimism and a move toward planning for the future. Questions of character and big house debates revealed that the main topic was no longer unemployment and how to make ends meet, although these issues still remain, but how Vineyarders define themselves and their community.