We are in the best part of a stargazing winter this weekend. The temperature outside isn't too chilly at night and the nights this weekend are moonless. If skies are clear we'll have a canopy overhead of billions of stars. The Milky Way can be breathtaking if there is no light pollution.

The Milky Way is a belt that extends from southeastern horizon, runs almost overhead, near our zenith, and then sinks below the horizon in the northwest.

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

It’s early morning and Tracey Olsen is sweeping up the tack room at Woodbe Farm in West Tisbury.

Ferries are running better than ever, but the Steamship Authority needs a management overhaul. That was the message from Vineyard SSA governor Marc Hanover to the Dukes County commission.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $184,310 for the business week ending on Friday, Dec. 28, 2018.

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.