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Island Community Explores Pathways To Strengthen Energy Reliability - CleanTechnica

Edgartown · Edgartown

Island Community Explores Pathways To Strengthen Energy Reliability - CleanTechnica

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U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy to Communities Program Helped Edgartown, Massachusetts, Plan for a Microgrid To Support Municipal Buildings in Emergencies There is no bridge to the island of Martha’s Vineyard from mainland Massachusetts: If you want to get there, you have to take a ferry or plane. The island’s ... [continued] The post Island Community Explores Pathways To Strengthen Energy Reliability appeared first on CleanTechnica.See the Story

Fishermen’s Trust to lease vacant Chilmark fish plant - The Martha's Vineyard Times

Fishermen · Tisbury

Fishermen’s Trust to lease vacant Chilmark fish plant - The Martha's Vineyard Times

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The Martha’s Vineyard Fishermen’s Preservation Trust (MVFPT) will have a new home in Menemsha after the purchase and impending renovation of 10 Basin Road, the former Poole’s Fish Plant and Chilmark Chandlery, a marine supply and ship equipment store. Sarah Bernard, and her husband, James Seppala — Chilmark homeowners who have been coming to the Island for decades — purchased the currently vacant property on Thursday for $3.1 million, according …Read Article

Tisbury sued over alleged discrimination in police department - The Martha's Vineyard Times

Tisbury, Massachusetts · Tisbury

Tisbury sued over alleged discrimination in police department - The Martha's Vineyard Times

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Updated 7:52 pm A former Tisbury police officer is suing the town and two police personnel over allegations of a hostile work environment, discrimination, and retaliation, becoming at least the third officer in five years to come forward with similar complaints in the department. Julia Levesque, who worked for the Tisbury Police Department for four years, filed the civil suit in Dukes County Superior Court on June 25. Besides the town, Tisbury …Read Article

A change of guard for Station Menemsha - The Martha's Vineyard Times

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Green crab: Redefining the catch - The Martha's Vineyard Times

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‘Bad Shabbos’: What’s the worst that could happen? - The Martha's Vineyard Times

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In the 1960s and 1970s, a memorable television commercial aired with the tagline, “You don’t have to be Jewish to love Levy’s real Jewish Rye.” The ad featured people from various ethnic and cultural backgrounds enjoying Levy’s rye bread. The same line is appropriate for the new and very amusing film by David Robbins, “Bad Shabbos,” playing at the M.V. Film Center starting July 5. “Shabbos” is the Yiddish word for “Shabbat,” from which we get th…Tisbury, Massachusetts · Tisbury Read Article

Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation invests $200,000 - The Martha's Vineyard Times

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The Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation awarded $200,000 through grants to Island Housing Trust and the YMCA of Martha’s Vineyard. The grants will support initiatives focused on youth programming, community engagement, and housing insecurity. The Island Housing Trust Corporation received a $100,000 grant to support Bellevue Veterans Community, a neighborhood of 12 affordable housing rental apartments in Oak Bluffs. This development is designed…Tisbury, Massachusetts · Tisbury Read Article

Robert Perullo - The Martha's Vineyard Times

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Robert Perullo, a longtime resident of Oak Bluffs, died on May 29, 2025, at Massachusetts General Hospital. He was 73 years old. Born April 10, 1952, in Boston to Frank and Grace Perullo, he spent his childhood in Braintree, and graduated from the University of Massachusetts as a philosophy major. After a year in an office job, he left for adventures, then landed in Martha’s Vineyard. For many years, Robert could be found after work in the windo…Tisbury, Massachusetts · Tisbury Read Article

Steamship to hold closed-door interviews for GM candidates - The Martha's Vineyard Times

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As the Steamship Authority works to find a new general manager, the committee tasked with finding the new ferry line leader has decided it will conduct interviews with candidates behind closed doors. And that, for a position that has been under heavy public scrutiny, has raised questions of transparency for some Vineyarders. The Steamship Authority general manager search committee agreed on Friday that interviews and negotiations with candidate…GM · Tisbury Read Article

Patricia D. Philbin-Lawrence - The Martha's Vineyard Times

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Patricia D. Philbin-Lawrence, 53, died unexpectedly of a heart attack on Thursday, June 19, 2025. Patty was a graduate of Clinton High School, class of 1989, and Providence College, class of 1993. Patty spent a lifetime of summers on the Island, and made the move permanently just a few years after college. She spent many years working for the Martha’s Vineyard Transit Authority and in the restaurant business on the Island, and most recently for …Tisbury, Massachusetts · Tisbury Read Article

Oak Bluffs Makes Changes to Trash Pickup

11:05 am, July 1, 2025Town workers previously provided the service, but, starting Tuesday, Bruno’s, will now collect residential trash pickups.Oak Bluffs · Oak Bluffs Read Article

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