General overrides, school repairs and new bylaw language will all be decided at the West Tisbury annual town meeting next week.

In Edgartown, two candidates are running for one position on the planning board, and three candidates are running for one position on the select board.

It’s Town Meeting Time!  The first of the town meetings are this week, we’ll have a preview of some of the issues including proposed restrictions on jet skis and leaf blowers. And Allen Farm has its first lamb of the season. We’ll celebrate by hearing some sounds of spring.

Michael Seiman and Destiny Seaman purchased 18 Bold Meadow Road in Edgartown from James G. Gorman Trust and 18 Bold Meadow Road for $4,300,000 on March 24.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $144,200 for the business week ending on Friday, March 28, 2025.

Richard Michelson’s latest children’s book, Next Year in the White House: Barack Obama’s First Presidential Seder, tells the story of how Passover became an annual celebration at the White House during President Obama’s administration.

Tomorrow Saturday night, the gibbous moon appears in close proximity to the the bright red planet Mars. The two are in the zodiacal constellation Gemini. Mars has lost a lot of its brilliance from just a few months ago. Mars is getting farther away from us, over 100,000 miles away now and that distance is growing, thus it is getting dimmer.

Mars and the Moon are a nice looking assembly. You'll have no trouble noticing Mars with its reddish glow. Not far away are the two brightest stars in Gemini, Pollux and Castor. Pollux is the closest to the moon and the brighter of the two.

Two students at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School won national gold medals at the 2025 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.

As I walk along a wooded lane
worn down by time
I wonder:

Forty five Island businesses gathered behind tables at the regional high school Wednesday, speaking to students about various job opportunities for the upcoming summer and beyond.