The tides in the week ahead will be more extreme, higher than usual and lower too. The reason is two astronomical events happening at the same time. The moon will be at perihelion next Thursday, which means it will be closest to us in its regular orbit around the Earth. Add to that another aspect: the moon will be in the New Moon phase the next day, which means that the moon will be in the same proximity of the sky as our sun.

West Tisbury officials this week declined to take action on lowering the town meeting quorum and instead vowed to renew efforts to get voters out to the annual legislative gathering.

The Trustees of Reservations announced Wednesday that it will be laying off 10 per cent off its staff statewide, including one staff member on the Vineyard.

A portable dental service will offer free teeth cleanings to Island adults during select dates in February and April.

Monica Brady-Myerov, a journalist and digital entrepreneur, will take the reins of the media group effective March 11, succeeding Jane Seagrave, who is retiring after more than a dozen years with the publishing company.

The journey to Aquinnah was two-fold: a tow by sea to the Martha’s Vineyard Shipyard in Vineyard Haven, and then a land transport up-Island.

Its scientific name is Codium fragile, but for many beachcombers across the Island the invasive macroalgae goes by a more ominous title: dead man’s fingers.

This year’s Black History Month stamp, honoring judge Constance Baker Motley, is the work of an acclaimed Vineyard artist who divides his time between the Island and Atlanta.

Three bad storms, back-to-back. Severe erosion. Major flooding. It’s time to start talking about managed retreat from the coast.

This letter of disgust and despair has been stewing since last May, when the site of the proposed nursing home in Edgartown on the Edgartown/Vineyard Haven Road was clear cut seemingly overnight. Recently, an article in the Martha’s Vineyard Times praising trees and an article in the Vineyard Gazette reporting on perhaps a forward motion on that butchered Edgartown property, has prompted me to ask: Why did the people involved with that project begin it so terribly? Why were they allowed to?