It’s finally here – Thanksgiving!  The holiday season is in full swing on Martha’s Vineyard. While many people have visions of drumsticks and pecan pie on the mind, there’s lots more to do before and after Thanksgiving is over. Guilt Free Thanksgiving Dinner How can that be? Well you can start your day with a 5k — the 5K “Turk...

Wondering where hundreds of kids from kindergarten to sixth grade go each week after school? Just stop by the Martha’s Vineyard Boys & Girls Club. There you’ll find kids lined up to check in and participate in the Club’s After School Program. Being Active, Happy & More For only $20 per child per school year, kids have a saf...

It’s day three of Who’s That Bear. With your help, we hope to find the perfect name for our new bear for the Martha’s Vineyard Teddy Bear Suite. This cute, cuddly guy joins fellow big bears Edgar and Chappy. So far we have some really great and clever names. What’s your favorite?  Let us know, your vote counts. Perhaps it’s no...

What a way to start a fundraising drive. The Martha’s Vineyard Teddy Bear Suite today raised more than $1,000 online coinciding with the launch of its new website MVTeddyBearSuite.Com While the actual Teddy Bear Suite is only open for three days in December at the Harbor View Hotel (Dec. 13 – 15), the new website enables supporters...

The Martha’s Vineyard Teddy Bear Suite today marked the beginning of its third holiday fundraising drive by launching a new website MVTeddyBearSuite.Com. “Our new website gathers all the news and information about the Teddy Bear Suite and puts it all into one, easy to find place,” said Wendy Harman, Owner/Principal Broker Point B R...

With the Martha’s Vineyard Teddy Bear Suite and Christmas in Edgartown three weeks away, we thought it was time to introduce the newest member of the Point B teddy bear family. This bear is the biggest of our bunch, and is so sweet and cuddly. The only problem is that we need helping naming him. The New Bear in Town Yes, we are ad...

One of the bummers of the Summer coming to an end is that the West Tisbury Farmer’s Market is no longer around to enrich our Saturday mornings. However, we now have the West Tisbury Winter Farmer’s Market at the Ag Hall. It’s an abundance of Island grown meat, produce and other goods. The Ag Hall is transformed into a room ful...

The first snow has fallen on Martha’s Vineyard, and many of us are starting to think of the holidays. Usually one to wait until after Thanksgiving to get into the spirit, this year is a little different. I’m feeling a bit in the spirit a little early. Not that I am ready to hear Christmas songs or see Christmas trees, but I am...

In late October, MV Wine and Spirits opened its doors. Located next to Flatbread by the Martha’s Vineyard Airport, this location is a game changer for a lot of Island residents. Brion and Brion Sr. McGroarty from Town Provisions in downtown Edgartown closed that location and opened their brand new package store, MV Wine and Spirits...

Twenty years later, and the Island is still celebrating the raising of the new Ag Hall in West Tisbury and the community that helped build it with the Barn Raisers’ Ball. Ten years after moving to Martha’s Vineyard, I went to my first Barn Raisers’ Ball. I know, I too can’t believe I had never gone before. I guess I always felt a b...