Breaking a stalemate over post-employment benefit funding and money for a new track, the regional high school district committee approved a $22 million regional high school operating budget.

The Yellow House will stay gray until the end of next summer, according to a small change in the property’s lease agreement made at the Edgartown selectmen’s meeting last week.

Bruce W. Gray and Samantha N. Jason purchased 9 Quansoo Road in Chilmark from David M. Ford for $770,000 on Dec. 28.

Happy New Year! Peaceful moments at the tip of Aquinnah.

2019 is a new year standing before us like 365 blank pages in a book just waiting to be filled with everything from the messy penmanship of daily life or the fancy calligraphy of well thought out plans.

Well, December has gone into the record books as the fourth warmest ever recorded.

I am starting the New Year in the Old Country. I arrived in the nick of time for a lovely party on New Year’s Eve.

I am writing to you this week from the snowy White Mountains of New Hampshire where the landscape is a far cry from our Chappy flatlands.

True to predictions, this has been an invasion year for the irruptive northern species of the boreal forests.

Here it is the first day of a brand new year. The day was simply beautiful, up into the 50s and sunny.