🌱 How a Vineyard Haven summer home shaped a best-selling divorce memoir
Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts Patch AM: a 3 min readHello again Vineyard Haven! We’re bringing you the latest town highlights. Don’t miss out, keep going! ☕️️
In today's newsletter:
- How a Vineyard Haven summer home shaped a best-selling divorce memoir
- How a state ruling could reshape future affordable housing in Vineyard Haven
Also on today's calendar: 2026 Annual Shearing Day Celebration and 5 more events.
Today's riddle: How do you measure a fish? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Wednesday: A shower around, mainly later, with a high of 47 and low of 43 degrees.
- Thursday: A morning shower; breezy, temps: high: 59, low: 36.
- Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 55 and low of 34 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Vineyard Author's New Memoir Breaks Down a Marriage (vineyardgazette.com) — A seasonal Vineyard Haven resident has turned the painful collapse of her marriage into a best-selling memoir that’s deeply rooted in her life on the Island. Writing from her Tisbury home and inspired by the ospreys nesting nearby, she reflects on divorce, financial independence, and reclaiming her identity while spending more time as part of the Vineyard community. 
• Edgartown Gardens Ruling Cuts MVC Out of Affordable Housing (vineyardgazette.com) — A new state housing appeals ruling could sharply limit the Martha’s Vineyard Commission’s power over big affordable housing projects, shifting authority to town zoning boards instead. While sparked by an Edgartown senior housing proposal, the decision could reshape how future 40B developments are reviewed across the Island, including any major projects that might come to Vineyard Haven.
📸 Around Vineyard Haven
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Upcoming Events in
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★ Featured events ★
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How To Set Your Puppy Up For Success
Stillpoint, 20 Stillpoint Meadows Rd, Vineyard Haven
4:00 pm
Saturday April 25
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Other local events
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Story Circle with Aria at the MV Family Center!
MV Family Center , 35 Greenwood Ave. , Vineyard Haven
10:45 am -
2026 Annual Shearing Day Celebration
Island Alpaca Company , 1 Head of the Pond Rd , Vineyard Haven
10:00 am -
Interactive Shrek
Martha's Vineyard Film Center
11:00 am -
MV Spring Classic Marathon and Half Marathon
100 Edgartown Vineyard Haven Rd , Vineyard Haven
12:00 pm -
Tisbury Annual & Special Town Meetings
Tisbury School Gymnasium-Auditorium , 40 West William Street , Vineyard Haven
7:00 pm -
Story Circle with Aria at the MV Family Center!
MV Family Center , 35 Greenwood Ave. , Vineyard Haven
10:45 am -
Silent Book Club MV - April Meeting
Bunch of Grapes Bookstore , 23 Main St , Vineyard Haven
5:30 pm
Friday April 24
Sunday April 26
Tuesday April 28
Wednesday April 29
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🗓 Events Nearby
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Story Circle with Aria at the MV Family Center!
MV Family Center , 35 Greenwood Ave. , Tisbury
10:45 am -
The Wild World of Animals Show
Tisbury School , 40 W William St , Vineyard Haven
3:30 pm -
Pancakes and Cartoons
West Tisbury Library , 1042 State Rd , West Tisbury
9:30 am -
Pancakes & Cartoons
West Tisbury Library , 1042 State Rd , West Tisbury
9:30 am
Wednesday April 22
Thursday April 23
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- Unifi posted a job opening for Airport Ramp Agent (JetBlue) - MVY in Vineyard Haven. Apply here.
- Rockland Trust posted a job opening for Assistant Branch Manager I Vineyard Haven Branch in Vineyard Haven. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Vineyard Haven here.
🗞 Nearby News
Oak Bluffs
- Best Local 5K Races in Massachusetts This Spring (wbsm.com)
- Oak Bluffs OKs $5M To Acquire Island Theatre (hoodline.com)
Woods Hole
- Sea Change Coming For Woods Hole Marine Science Institution: Report (patch.com)
- First-Year Seminar Program launches post-seminar experiences (harvard.edu)
- April Sounds (capeandislands.org)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: By inches because they have no feet. (Thank you Gypsy S. for sending it in!)
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