A runner and all around active personality, Robert Galibois has no plans to sit behind a desk when his term begins in January.

This has been a wonderful week for adoptions.

Chappy Ferry owner Peter Wells is seeking a rate hike for the boat line connecting the small, rural island to downtown Edgartown.

There will be no music show to accompany the Christmas lights in Ocean Park this year.

Editors note: In the summer of 2008, a tough turkey named Tom was terrorizing a Vineyard Haven neighborhood.

In Scotland they ran for their lives from the gallows of Queen Mary. She was the Catholic queen of Scotland, and they were the Scottish Protestant Nevin rebels.

There's a church in Tisbury that needs a window restored.

Mr. Editor: — It is rather late in the season for Camp-meeting letters, so I will call this a Camp-ground letter.

On a blustery November day, in choppy waters somewhere off the western shore of the Island, Capt. Otto Osmers winched in his first conch pot of the day. At its peak in 2011, 1.4 million pounds of conch were harvested in Dukes County, with a monetary value of over $3 million.