The meal tax would charge an excise of .75 per cent on the sale of meals at restaurants in town, adding onto the existing 6.25 per cent state sales tax.

Erin Tiernan, the co-owner of the Oak Bluffs clothing stores Eastaway and Basics Clothing Company, purchased the Oak Bluffs maintstay for $1.36 million last month.

This year’s holiday gift show at Featherstone Center for the Arts is its largest ever, with 120 artists participating in the annual event.

Winter storage of kayaks, dinghies, rowboats, inflatables, etc., on Tisbury town property after Dec. 15 is only allowed with the express permission of the harbormaster.

Dukes County Sheriff Robert Ogden accepted the 2024 Innovation of the Year Award from the Massachusetts Sheriff’s Association.

Keith Maxwell, a deckhand for the Steamship Authority, came to an undisclosed agreement with the boat line on Oct. 8.

Musicians from around the Island and across the water bid farewell to Geordie Gude on Sunday, who died on Wednesday at his home in Chilmark.

The Edgartown select board voted Nov. 25 to approve a filming permit for the unnamed show. The shoot is expected to take place from Dec. 6-8.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank goat herd will be sold off for $10 a head this week after the herd became plagued with parasitic worms. 

In a new study, scientists say they found more infected ticks had fed on shrews, upending the common belief that white-footed mice were the main culprits.