Gov. Maura Healey announced last week that the state has entered into an agreement with Connecticut and Rhode Island to start a coordinated effort to procure offshore wind energy.
Island Grown Initiative seeks to move its food pantry to Dukes County avenue in Oak Bluffs, while in Vineyard Haven, landowner Michael Sawyer is applying to replace a demolished building on Lagoon Pond Road with two four-story apartments.
You've got to get up early in the morning to see a thin crescent moon shining near the brilliant planet Venus. The two are together on Tuesday morning. Take another look for a third bright celestial object, the bright star Regulus. All three are in the zodiacal constellation Leo.
The moon gets closer to the morning eastern horizon for the next two days. The moon disappears and then crosses in front of the sun for an annular eclipse on Saturday, October 14.
Health officials on the Island are conducting contact tracing this week after a reported case of chickenpox at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School.
For 40 years, the Martha’s Vineyard Community Foundation has presented the Creative Living Award to an Islander whos fosters community growth and togetherness. On Thursday the recipient was Juli Vanderhoop.
The third annual Indigenous Peoples Day celebration takes place at Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary on Monday, Oct. 9. The event is organized by Sassafras Earth Education in collaboration with Felix Neck.
Island singer-songwriter Michael Mason spent more than half a century writing his musical play Billy Baloo, which opened this weekend at the Martha's Vineyard Playhouse.
Caroline McLeod Thompson was married Saturday, Sept. 16 to James Cochran Boynton at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Edgartown.
In a recent Aquinnah select board meeting, town officials raised the alarm about an outbreak of Japanese knotweed near a town water tank, hindering access to the tank and even potentially compromising the structure.