The union that includes Island Stop & Shop employees voted on Sunday to authorize a strike as part of contract negotiations. Employees are still at work at the two stores on Island.

After months of lobbying from the Vineyard Conservation Society, both Vineyard Stop & Shop stores have discontinued the use of plastic bags.

A plastic bag ban was adopted on the Vineyard two years ago by every Island town. But reusable bags being handed out at Stop & Shop stores are causing confusion, and problems.

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission voted Thursday night to approve plans for a large expansion of the Edgartown Stop & Shop.

Traffic, parking and neighborhood concerns took the stage last week at a hearing on the proposed expansion of the Edgartown Stop & Shop.

A public hearing about the proposed expansion of the Edgartown Stop & Shop store is slated to begin Thursday before the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.

The latest plan by Stop & Shop to expand and renovate its Edgartown supermarket has arrived at the Martha’s Vineyard Commission, which plans to begin a review next month.

The Edgartown planning board voted to refer a large renovation and expansion of the Edgartown Stop & Shop to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.

Plans to expand the store are proceeding slowly, with the planning board hearing results of a traffic study and an update about potential complications involving a bank branch next door.

Stop & Shop representatives this week formally presented plans for a substantial expansion of the company’s grocery store in Edgartown.