The West Tisbury select board voted to form a committee to investigate building needs at the town’s public safety building on State Road.

The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School committee has vowed to continue its legal fight with the Oak Bluffs planning board, but paying for the court battle could be complicated.

Then out across the ocean, Martha’s Vineyard came in view, and St. Nick suggested landing, to all his reindeer crew, in Ocean Park in Oak Bluffs, when they above it flew.

Robert Solow, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, longtime professor at MIT, winner of the Presidential Medal for Freedom in 2014 and Chilmark summer resident since 1962, died on Dec. 21

If you are looking for something in the sky mindful of the Christmas Star you'll need to get up early in the morning. The brighest planet in the sky, Venus, is high in the southeastern sky well before sunrise. Venus is in the zodiacal constellation Libra and it is well placed this winter for viewing any morning. Enjoy the moment now, for Venus will start appearing lower and lower in the eastern sky each morning ahead.

Venus is getting farther from us and it is only slightly going to get fainter. By May, the planet will be so low in the east to be difficult to spot before sunup.

The other night, while picking out a Christmas tree with my family, an older man approached me, holding a bouquet of holly branches. “I’m in love with your wife,” he told me.

Now that the COP 28 has dictated a transition away from fossil fuels, it’s time that our Steamship Authority begins charging more for big vehicles or less for smaller ones. S

The Woman’s Club of Martha’s Vineyard celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2023 with a program in March at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum.

Erislainy Prata and Joao Prata, of Vineyard Haven, announce the birth of a daughter, Ayla Prata, born on Dec. 14.