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To reduce its environmental impact, Cronig’s Market has teamed up with Eco MV to replace all its styrofoam packaging. Styrofoam is a byproduct of petroleum and has a landfill life of over 3,000 years, and while it has been touted as a light and well-insulating material, more sustainable alternatives abound. For Cronig’s Market, the more […]

Last week, Steve Bernier, owner of closed on a condemned property at 6 Water Street in downtown Vineyard Haven. Subsequently, he turned around and donated the property to Island Housing Trust. The $700,000 home represents the Island’s single largest affordable housing donation to date. Read more on Martha’s Vineyard Patch

A crowd of about 40 gathered in the Cronig’s Market parking lot in Vineyard Haven Friday morning to mark the official “flipping of the switch” on the first phase of the Vineyard Power Cooperative’s (VP) solar canopy project at Cronig’s Market. The two parallel canopies, designed to produce 64 Kw of electricity each, cover the

Was there some golden time on the island when food was basic and simple and local? What was food shopping really like in earlier days? Being a mother and the primary ‘hunter-gatherer’ in my family, I spend a lot of time at the grocery store. I often wonder, has it always been like this…? Across

For more than 90 years, residents and visitors of Martha’s Vineyard have bought their groceries at Cronig’s Market. Robbie Cronig’s father and uncles opened Cronig’s Market in 1917. Robbie Cronig started working at the store when he was just a boy. Decades later, he owned it. And many years later, he sold his family’s business