The first installment of this season's Tuesdays in the Newsroom series featured Wellfleet Wildlife Sanctuary scientist and sea turtle expert Karen Dourdeville.

The Vineyard Gazette’s off-season discussion series Tuesdays in the Newsroom returns on Tuesday, Oct. 23, with a presentation about current threats facing the sea turtle population.

Tuesdays in the Newsroom will conclude on Tuesday, May 15 with an inside look at the process by which the newspaper is produced each week.

Community policing on Martha’s Vineyard requires a special set of skills, four chiefs and the sheriff said during a Gazette discussion this week.

The Gazette’s off-season discussion series returns next week with an opportunity to hear from the Island’s top law enforcement officials.

Oyster farming is no longer a promising trend but a vibrant reality and a million-dollar industry on the Vineyard, five members of the Island aquaculture community told a gathering at the Gazette newsroom Tuesday.

Tuesdays in the Newsroom, the Gazette's off-season discussion season, takes a look at this new fishery.

Olive Tomlinson, Gretchen Tucker Underwood and Skip Finley shared memories of their Oak Bluffs childhoods, moving in the orbit of a tight-knit community of African American summer residents.

Tuesdays in the Newsroom, the Gazette’s off-season speaker series, returns on Feb. 20 with a short film and panel discussion in honor of Black History Month.

About 25 North Atlantic right whales gathered south of the Vineyard last week, marking an early-season sighting.