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Hundreds of Islanders stood and marched in solidarity with Nycolas de Al Varenga Lima, the high school student who was arrested by immigration officials alongside his father, Rogerio da Silva Lima, in the fishing town the pair were detained from earlier this week.  The streets of Menemsha were overflowing with an estimated 275 supporters of The post Teenager taken by ICE released; hundreds gather in Menemsha rally appeared first on The Martha's Vineyard Times.

Tisbury School students marched to the sea carrying brightly-hued flowers to be thrown into the harbor from Owen Park in a longtime Island tradition to honor those who gave their lives for the country. Around 300 Tisbury students walked down Spring Street and into Main Street on Friday for the annual March to the Sea, The post Marching to the sea in memory of service members appeared first on The Martha's Vineyard Times.

Island town administrators and Vineyard Wind officials finally sat down this past week to take steps to possibly replicate an agreement that Nantucket established last December.  “I met with … Vineyard Wind and town administrators yesterday,” Tim Caroll, Chilmark town administrator, said at a select board meeting on Tuesday. “We’re working on a [memorandum of The post Island and Vineyard Wind officials meet appeared first on The Martha's Vineyard Times.

Students at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School (MVRHS) were energized Friday as they called for the release of their peer, Nycolas de Al Varenga Lima, from the custody of the U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE).  Roughly 200 students poured out of the school on Friday onto the sidewalk of Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road for a The post MVRHS students hold walkout to honor classmate detained by ICE appeared first on The Martha's Vineyard Times.

David M. Capato, 58, an Edgartown man charged in 2025 for making a bomb threat at the Vineyard Haven Steamship Authority terminal, pleaded guilty Wednesday, May 21, in Dukes County Superior Court and was sentenced to five years of probation on multiple counts.  At the change of plea hearing before Superior Court Judge Elaine M. The post Edgartown man pleads guilty; bomb threat charges dropped appeared first on The Martha's Vineyard Times.