The Martha’s Vineyard Commission voted 10-1 on Thursday to allow Amelia Hambrecht to move the whaling-era Caleb Prouty house from downtown Vineyard Haven to her property on Lagoon Pond Road.

Tiffany McCarty moved to the Vineyard in 2022 to be the director of nursing at Windemere Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Right away she began looking into ways to revitalize the softball program on the Island.

Summer baseball at the Shark Tank is right around the corner and this year’s squad is shaping up to have the kind of firepower that could give the Fourth of July fireworks a run for their money.

A kayaker is being treated at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital after he was pulled from the waters near little bridge in Oak Bluffs and given CPR by a bystander and the town’s shellfish constable. 

The short-term rental committee was created after town meeting last month passed limits on vacation rentals. The town is the first on the Island to create a bylaw on the controversial properties. 

The moon is in a close path with two of the brighest stars in our evening sky in the coming week. The gibbous moon, waxing, will approach the bright star Spica, the brightest star in the constellation Virgo on Sunday night. Take a look. The moon is almost on a collision course. The two will be only a few degrees apart during the night, the closest being less than two degrees.

Their proximity is so close most folks will miss it. Take a look during the evening as this slow motion event takes place.

Thomas Murphy eked out a win in a tight Aquinnah select board race Thursday, defeating challenger Jannette Vanderhoop 129-115.

When Covid-19 restrictions forced Island schools to go dark in early 2020, thousands of video screens lit up as teachers took their lessons online and isolated children reached out to each other through cell phones and social media. Educators are still dealing with the aftermath.

Twenty years ago on May 17, joyous Massachusetts gay and lesbian couples began marrying shortly after midnight.

We at the Chappaquiddick Island Association have watched with concern for more than two years as the Trustees of Reservations and the Edgartown Conservation Commission have wrestled over the appropriate stewardship of our barrier beaches of Wasque, Leland and Cape Pogue.