After a two-year buying frenzy, sales of Island properties ebbed last year and dropped to their lowest level in at least 10 years during the first six months of 2023.

From the August 13, 1935 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: The preliminary report of the most recent census of agriculture is likely to be somewhat baffling to Islanders.

Wonderful Aquinnah retreat perched on high ground with stonewalls and manicured landscape.

The Chilmark Road Race arrives on Middle Road for its 46th outing this Saturday. Start time is 10:30 a.m. for the 5K race that has become a tradition for many Island families.

For Andrew Nutton, sailing is more than a lifelong love and vocation. The newly appointed executive director of Sail Martha’s Vineyard credits it with his very life.

Emilie Townes recently celebrated her retirement as dean of Vanderbilt University’s Divinity School of with a four-day series of events on the Vineyard, culminating with a Womanist Wisdom Panel at Union Chapel.

Black cats, Smokey and Bandit, have been adopted together.

The 161st edition of the Agricultural Fair takes place Thursday, August 17 through Sunday, August 20.
 Planning begins in October, when organizers from the Agricultural Society meet for a debrief and begin reserving slots on the Steamship Authority ferry.

Rev. Senator Raphael Warnock preaches at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs on Sunday, August 13 beginning at 12:30 p.m.

The Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center will have three panelists on Thursday August 17 at 5:30 p.m. discussing the subject: “What has happened in the year since Dobbs?”