The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $107,380 for the business week ending on Friday, Feb. 28, 2025.

We have no adoptions to report this week but our pet of the week Nellie, a stunning 13-year-old, medium hair, torbie cat.

Peter J. Bradford purchased 21 Fifteenth street South in Edgartown from Amy Hahn for $24,000 on Feb. 24.

Each spring, the sound of squeaky sneakers on the gym floor ends as the Vineyard’s youth basketball travel team ends its season. But not anymore.

Island dancer Abby Bender found her passion through an untraditional path.

Island school officials have updated a resolution designed to protect students and their families, with new language stating explicitly that federal agents are not welcome on public school property. 

The Friends of Mill Pond believe that the survival of West Tisbury’s Mill Pond is not simply a matter of aesthetics or sentimentality.

Humans, as a species, have over the course of history brought great change to the planet, mostly at the cost of fragile ecosystems around the globe.

Barbara Murphy and I met in the fall of 1976 when I began teaching at MVRHS and she was completing her first year there. I was teaching social studies and for Barbara, it was Spanish. We quickly became fast friends and for all these years remained so.

I learned today of the passing of Barbara Murphy, my beloved MVRHS Spanish teacher, and later my colleague and department chair, friend and fellow Up-Islander, mi querida.

I will always remember you telling Greg Scotten that I “just got back from studying in Salamanca.” Thus, with your loving, kind and direct blessing I became part of the MVRHS orbit to teach Spanish with you.