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The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School (MVRHS) girls’ varsity tennis team returned to the Island as state champions Saturday evening, met by a cheering crowd of hometown fans and the flashing lights of emergency vehicles as they disembarked from a Steamship Authority ferry in Vineyard Haven.  Amid 90-degree weather, and the longest match of the The post It takes a ‘true team’ to win states appeared first on The Martha's Vineyard Times.

As the Island revs up for Pride weekend, controversy sparked over the location of the Drag Brunch, an annual part of the festivities celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community on the Island.  The situation caused a stir between two Oak Bluffs businesses, one saying a chance to elevate a queer-owned establishment is being stifled, while another said The post Drag Brunch host selection sparks controversy  appeared first on The Martha's Vineyard Times.

I have a team of professionals who help with my writing process. I have an agent who promises to get my work into the right hands, an editor who troubleshoots content-building and sentence formation, experts in my field of psychic development with whom I continuously brainstorm concepts and angles, and then there is my dad. The post On Writing: Inspirations appeared first on The Martha's Vineyard Times.

Although the weatherman said rain, the weather was clear for the start of the iconic two-day event in Edgartown that typically indicates the start of summer.  Guests in floor-length dresses and tailored suits gathered on the lawn of the historic Dr. Daniel Fisher House on Main Street and enjoyed everything from PBRs in red solos The post A Taste of the Vineyard draws record crowd appeared first on The Martha's Vineyard Times.

The Constitution requires a national census every 10 years to ensure that congressional districts are approximately equal in population. Today, each district contains about 710,000 people. Massachusetts has nine congressional districts. The Cape and Islands are in the ninth district, represented since 2013 by William Keating. The Trump administration has sought ways to undermine voting The post Who votes? appeared first on The Martha's Vineyard Times.