West Tisbury voters will still get a chance to weigh in on whether to install artificial turf at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High school, after the town select board agreed to keep a non-binding ballot question on this year’s election ballot.

From the February 15, 1929 edition of the Vineyard Gazette :Democracy at its best, in the institution of the good old-fashioned town meeting, functioned on the Vineyard this week.

Everybody here has a gig, sometimes two or three. They are craftsman, artists, master chefs, farriers, healers or visionaries. But what was I?

One winter I rented a house, high on a hill in Chilmark, overlooking the Atlantic. The sun came and went. The ocean changed from grey to green to blue, white caps here and there, now and then.

Please leave the turf question on the ballot. I

In January, my wife and I traveled to the Vineyard to visit family and check on the summer home.

Jessica Mason’s life hinges on a magic number. It’s the number she gets after a team of medical professionals run a series of tests on her overall health and kidney function.

PathwaysARTS welcomes an unplugged musical night on Friday, Feb. 16 featuring Phil daRosa and Friends, and Isaac Taylor going solo.

Charlie Giordano is a boxer, a musician, a motorcycle enthusiast and an artist. His latest work of art is a motorcycle he calls Voodoo Doll, which will be on display at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, beginning with an opening reception Friday, Feb. 16 at 5:30 p.m.

The storms have rung alarm bells about potential environmental hazards, both from the continual undermining of the south shore’s barrier beaches that protect these ponds and from the longer-term effects of more salt water breaching the fresh water environment.