Falmouth Academy is discussing the possibility of providing five-day boarding for students who live on Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. 

On a recent Sunday morning, my sons and husband gathered around me, all eyes on my phone. Google had compiled images from 2020 into an unsolicited story. Warm with nostalgia, we were cast back.

Venus is ever so quickly slipping closer to the western horizon each night. The brightest planet that looks like an airplane approaching with landing lights has dropped considerably in the last few weeks. It will drop even more in March.

About a mile west of the post office on the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road, a new neighborhood is taking shape with a $68 million nursing home at its heart.

The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School has set new graduation requirements for this year after a ballot initiative got rid of the need to pass a statewide standardized test. 

There will be at least two new Vineyard select board members this year as the Island’s annual town elections continue to take shape. 

Longtime Oak Bluffs select board member Gail Barmakian is not seeking reelection after 15 years on the board, instead opting to run for the town clerk position. 

A maritime recruitment firm with operations around the world is poised to conduct the search for a new Steamship Authority general manager.

The select board voted at its Feb. 25 meeting to approve the transfer of the store’s liquor license, inventory and stock to Sumanbhai Patel’s Dukes County Market, Inc.

In a trio of bills filed earlier this year, State Rep. Thomas Moakley requested more staff for the Edgartown District Court, a year-long study into the staffing levels and the condition of the 1858 courthouse, and better access to the state’s housing court for the Vineyard and Nantucket.