New Meat Processing Facilities Should Help Boost Deer Harvest

In this week's 10-minute wrap-up of the news from the Vineyard Gazette, residents in Oak Bluffs will vote on whether or not the town should legally allow short-term rentals and impose some rules on the properties. And a female Roman Catholic priest, not recognized by the Vatican, celebrates a different kind of mass on the Vineyard.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Because of the high school building project, safety officials advise limiting capacity at the Performing Arts Center to only 49 people in an auditorium that holds nearly 800. The contentious move would essentially close the largest indoor performance venue on the Island. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's 10-minute wrap-up of the news from the Vineyard Gazette, Islanders will weigh-in on statewide contested races but on the Vineyard, the Island’s state senator and state representative are running unopposed. And a new rock opera about abortion rights in the 1970s has Vineyard roots.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's 10-minute wrap-up of the news from the Vineyard Gazette, the Martha’s Vineyard Commission denied a proposed subdivision on a 54-acre parcel in Edgartown. The move is likely to lead to legal action by the developers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's 10-minute wrap-up of the news from the Vineyard Gazette, the Steamship Authority says high fuel costs could force them to increase prices for all tickets and parking. At the same time, the ferry service is considering making New Bedford a regular destination.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's 10-minute wrap-up of the news from the Vineyard Gazette, from sea to table, we follow the path of bluefish and bonito caught in the Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby and donated to the fillet program. And getting lost in a corn maze.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's 10-minute wrap-up of the news from the Vineyard Gazette, Basics, a year-round clothing store in Oak Bluffs, will close in December after the owners of the building expressed interest in selling.  And the Bass in the Grass art auction is on! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week’s 10-minute wrap-up from the Vineyard Gazette newsroom, a Martha’s Vineyard fisherwoman breaks the Massachusetts state record for false albacore after landing a nearly 20-pound fish from her boat. And we meet the new Superintendent of Island schools.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's 10-minute wrap-up of the news from the Vineyard Gazette newsroom, four new mobile facilities to support deer meat processing will be set up on the  Vineyard in an effort to boost hunting to curb the deer population and thus attack the tick problem.    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's 10-minute wrap-up of the news from the Vineyard Gazette newsroom, you are not imagining it, two of the busiest stretches of roads have seen an increasing number of vehicles in the last five years. And the 81st annual Fishing Derby kicks off this weekend.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.