Thursday, Dec. 7 is the first night of Hanukkah. Joy to all who celebrate.

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Santa Claus will be arriving on Friday, Dec. 8 via the Chappy Ferry for Christmas in Edgartown's lighting of the lighthouse celebration.

Clarice Rodrigues and Alef Rodrigues, of Chilmark, announce the birth of a daughter, Hanna Helena Rodrigues, born on Dec. 4.

After months of increasingly contentious correspondence, Edgartown town counsel has rejected The Trustees of Reservations’ claims that the land nonprofit does not own or have any responsibility to maintain the eastern side of the Dike bridge and aging bulkhead.

The descendants of a late Aquinnah landowner are petitioning the state appeals court to overturn a Dukes County Superior Court’s decision over who owns a small parcel off Moshup Trail. 

The select board got a first glimpse of a new bylaw that would limit private residences to two social events exceeding 50 people per week and no more than five events per month, enforceable by town police and punishable by a $300 fine. 

Winter on the Island is here and daylight is fleeting, but the lights are bright at the ice arena, gymnasium and YMCA pool as the Vineyard student athletes are back for another season of hockey, basketball, indoor track and swimming.

The land bank commission voted Monday to open the Caleb’s Pond Preserve, a three-acre strip of marsh and other habitat near the Chappy ferry that the land bank purchased in 2020. The opening is going forward without any of the planned waterfront access.

A grand jury returned indictments Friday for Jordan Creech and Christine Kurth on drug charges and Ryan Camacho and MacAleer Schilcher on rape charges.