The long-planned expansion of the Edgartown Stop & Shop is expected to be finished before the end of 2023, capping the years-long saga to renovate the grocery store chain’s largest location on Martha’s Vineyard.

The storm, a category 3 hurricane as of Wednesday afternoon, is poised to lose some of its strength as it moves over colder Atlantic waters, but Islanders are readying themselves for strong winds this weekend.

The Martha’s Vineyard Regional School committee is seeking a commitment from Oak Bluffs not to appeal a judge’s ruling in the ongoing dispute over a proposed artificial turf playing field.

Chef Ting of Black Joy Food Love and Juli Vanderhoop of the Orange Peel Bakery have created a menu of dishes from brisket to kugel in anticipation of the Jewish High Holidays.

With the turn of the calendar comes the return of fall high school sports on the Vineyard. And after last's year strong showing, the hype has returned, too.

The Holy Ghost Association was warned by health officials this week for improperly tagging quahaugs at the Feast of the Holy Ghost in July.

Sarah Kadison and five-year-old Tucker Schaefer both earned triple crowns (catching a bonito, false albacore and bluefish) on opening day. Tucker's advice to other fishermen: "reel hard."

Plans to renovate the Howes House in West Tisbury are on-hold indefinitely as the town select board reckons with policy violations on the Up-Island Council on Aging, the intermunicipal body headquartered there.

The resounding thwacking of a pickleball against a paddle may be silenced by municipal regulation in Chilmark, at least for now, after the town planning board moved to enact a moratorium on building new pickleball courts at their meeting on Monday.

Last weekend’s events were largely kept under wraps. If asked, attendees donning name tags and color-coded wristbands were told to say they were gathering for a family reunion. It was, in some ways, true.