7+ hour, 43+ min ago  (740+ words) At the MV Hospital's 26th annual health fair this weekend, healthcare providers and community partners shared resources and offered screenings to showcase the many organizations working to make a healthier Vineyard. "Hopefully this helps you to meet the people who are…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1133+ words) The Oak Bluffs board of health has officially decided it does not have the bandwidth to enforce the town's bylaw banning the sale of single-use plastic bottles under 34 ounces. After the select board asked the board of health for assistance…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (263+ words) Town officials expect bathrooms at the Aquinnah Circle will be operating this summer after recent testing and infrastructure upgrades. During a select board meeting on last Tuesday, infrastructure committee chair Eric Litt said water system testing and filtration improvements for…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (742+ words) The state is now tracking cases of alpha-gal syndrome to better understand the tick-borne illness that is spreading through Martha's Vineyard. Gov. Maura Healey announced last Thursday that alpha-gal syndrome would be reportable to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (766+ words) This week, the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School has been hosting a series of presentations aimed at educating students, parents, teachers and healthcare providers about the harms, conversations and cultures of pornography. The presentations are being led by Culture Reframed,…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (765+ words) With the temperatures on Martha's Vineyard dipping into the single digits and struggling to get above freezing, a question has been on the mind of Islanders: what does this mean for the pesky tick?" It's something that Patrick Roden-Reynolds, the…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (759+ words) Tick Free MV, the new Island nonprofit aiming to tackle tick-borne illnesses and allergies by reducing the Vineyard's tick population, has announced it will begin a thermal drone survey of the Island's deer population this week. From Feb. 15 to March…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (936+ words) But this fall she published her life story, titled Fighting for Love: Journal of a Training Analysis, in which she unearths memories lost to traumatic dissociation by revisiting journal entries from her own eight-year journey as a psychoanalysis patient. Dr....

3+ mon, 6+ day ago  (735+ words) I'm not a doctor. I'm a serial entrepreneur with my share of losses and wins. I've spent summers on the Vineyard my entire life. In 2024, my wife and I became full-time residents. Like so many, we still headed off-Island to…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (797+ words) Bird flu made a resurgence on the Vineyard over the holidays after the disease wiped out one of the largest chicken flocks on-Island." The highly pathogenic avian influenza hit the 350-bird coop at Slough Farm in Edgartown, killing about half…...