Attorneys for the town of Oak Bluffs and the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School committee made their final arguments Friday morning before state land court judge Kevin Smith in the dispute over a planned artificial turf field at the school.

The realities of maintaining the Vineyard’s often picturesque past have become increasingly complex, as voluntary boards grapple with insufficient resources and occasional resistance from homeowners who want amenities never imagined by their forebears.

James Anthony grew up in Maryland, where he was living when he was recruited in 2017 to be the CEO of Martha’s Vineyard Bank. Coming from a small town on the tip of a peninsula in Chesapeake Bay, Mr. Anthony said he adapted quickly to Island life.

All across the Island next week, chefs will fire up burners and delivery drivers will start their engines to make sure no one on the Vineyard goes without a Thanksgiving meal.

The Dukes County Commission took the rare step Friday of appealing to the full governing board of the Steamship Authority, calling events surrounding the incident in which the Sankaty slipped from its mooring this summer “extremely disturbing.”

Loren Ghiglione of Chilmark, a longtime journalist and educator, has been given the 2023 Richard J. Levine Journalism Champion Award by the Dow Jones News Fund.

Nonprofit leaders and volunteers from across Martha's Vineyard gathered at the Grange Hall in West Tisbury Wednesday night as the Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation handed out more than $400,000 in grants.

Gov. Maura Healey’s historic Affordable Homes Act includes a local option transfer fee, a critical step toward achieving the goal of establishing a Vineyard Housing Bank.

Autumn is a time of remembrance, especially November.

From the Nov. 15, 1929 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: One evening recently an Edgartown woman was informing her young nephew as to the number of dwelling houses which, a matter of fifty or more years ago, were located on Main street.