At the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, set designer Lisa Pegnato usually plays a key role that never requires her to step in front of the audience. But this month her art work is on display in the playhouse lobby.

For the past 40 years, Shearer Cottage — the rambling, red-sided building in the East Chop highlands — has been the annual destination for a group of doctors from Vermont.

A large oak tree that graces the east side of Music street near Middle Road will soon die, the West Tisbury tree warden told selectmen this week.

Every year, communities across Massachusetts get a complicated school report card that purports to measure their success. The MCAS scores are anxiously awaited.

The New England Fishery Management Council voted last week to limit both the scope and size of the commercial herring catch for the next three years.

A $1.5 million state grant announced this week will go to the Dukes County sheriff.

A post-summer report says tick populations are up, especially the newest species of disease-carrying arachnid to invade Martha’s Vineyard: the lone star tick.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $405,390.76 for the business week ending on Friday, Sept. 28, 2018.

Emily and Eric Anderson of Vineyard Haven announce the birth of a son, Everett Jones Root Anderson, born on Oct. 2.

Melanie Devaney-Reid and Evan Reid of Edgartown announce the birth of a daughter, Leonora Jane Reid, born on Oct. 2.