The Vineyard Gazette won 47 awards in the New England Better Newspapers Competition this week, garnering top honors in numerous categories.

On Friday, May 14, the Vineyard Gazette will mark its 175th anniversary, and plans are in the works for a yearlong celebration.

Jane Seagrave was elected president of the Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association at its annual meeting Thursday.

The Vineyard Gazette’s website, vineyardgazette.com, won a national EPPY award on Tuesday for excellence in digital media. The site was named best newspaper site under 1 million unique monthly visitors.

Noah Asimow, who began work at the Vineyard Gazette as a summer intern two years ago, has been appointed news editor for the newspaper.

The Vineyard Gazette has relaunched its twice-weekly email newsletter as The Broadsheet. The Notebook, a popular anonymous essayist, will continue to appear in a new newsletter.

The Vineyard Gazette’s annual holiday subscription drive has raised $11,085 for Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard.

The Vineyard Gazette won recognition for excellence in journalism by the New England Newspaper and Press Association this weekend.

Vineyard Gazette editor Julia Wells, who has chronicled the evolution of Martha’s Vineyard over four decades, has been named to the New England Newspaper Hall of Fame.

Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard, which provides care and comfort to Island families at the end of life, has been named the beneficiary of the Vineyard Gazette’s annual holiday subscription promotion.