Bethany Hammond, assistant director of the Up-Island Council on Aging, will be taking over as new director of the organization next month.

Who gets to decide what’s best for the Vineyard? How does the Island prioritize demands on its limited resources? Who here has NIMBY cred?

As the spring season begins, I’d like to address the question no one has been asking and officially announce my retirement from youth sports coaching.

From the April 24, 1959 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:

recalling the gorgeous mornings / before the hordes / of May when grandson / and his always faithful bear / would climb into the stroller / and off we would go / down Circuit Avenue.

The following cases were heard in Edgartown District Court.

The Greenhouse of Martha’s Vineyard, formerly COMSOG, is a nonprofit community organization that aims to promote gardening.

Thank you to Animal Health Care Associates at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport for doing the right thing during a crisis on April 17.

Bruce Alexander MacClellan and Alysa MacClellan purchased 44 Jeremiah Road in Edgartown from Lionel Spiro for $1,325,000 on April 17.

et another sure sign of spring is the opening of our ponds. Some are now done by machine, while others are still done, as they say, the old-fashioned way.