Hallowe’en festivities this year have extended over an unusually protracted period, and witchery and weirdness have held high carnival.

Brian Athearn and Julie Scott are stepping down as chair and vice chair, respectively, from the Agricultural Society board of trustees due to term limits. The organization limits trustees to two four-year terms.

Thirty years have passed since dozens of Islanders traveled to New Hampshire to disassemble an old dairy barn. Six months later, the community came together to build what is now the Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury.  

The Edgartown planning board heard complaints about the restoration of Swimming Place Path last week, but said the select board will be the decision makers on the project.

The overnight winter shelter run by Harbor Homes Martha’s Vineyard begins Nov. 1.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $331,080 for the business week ending on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024.

Martha’s Vineyard Chamber of Commerce has launched a Golden Ticket program to help boost local shopping during the holiday season.

Fulling Mill Road LLC. purchased 27 Ocean View Farm Road in Chilmark from 1986 Robert M. Solow Revocable Trust and Matthew A. Berlin Trust for $2,200,000 on October 25.

Eversource has proposed two new projects that the company said will help meet growing energy demands on the Island and reduce carbon emissions.

Birders tend to go where they find interesting birds. Susan Whiting, Lanny McDowell, Bob Shriber, Nancy Nordin and myself teamed up to find 60 species on the morning of Oct. 27, most of which were songbirds. We generally do not find that many species in three hours. Some of us were looking in one direction when others were looking elsewhere and finding other species.