Kimberly Andrade, who started working for the town in December 2021, was on paid administrative leave for 10 months before she was terminated by the select board on Jan. 23 in a meeting that lasted under two minutes.

A total of 20 students from Martha’s Vineyard earned recognition for their work in this year’s Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, an annual statewide competition since 1923.

At a pair of public hearings, some hunters gave their support to running the annual deer hunting season into January to reduce the Island's deer population. Others focused on different measures, such as allowing hunting on Sundays.

Deer hunting on the Island saw a notable decline this season, prompting officials to consider extending the season for the first time in the state’s history.

The Vineyard remembered and paid tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King in a series of events during the holiday weekend.

Charlie Blair took over as the Edgartown harbor master in 1995, but his love of being on the water began much earlier, as a boy growing up in Florida.

It was standing room only at an Edgartown select board meeting Monday as family, friends and police officers gathered to celebrate the swearing-in of police chief Chris Dolby.

The voices and personalities of the Vineyard Gazette’s outdoors columnists took center stage at the second edition of the recently revived Tuesdays in the Newsroom series.

Frigid temperatures didn’t deter the Island’s surfing community, which took to the water in 6-mm thick wet suits, resembling seals more than people as they paddled out in search of waves.