Peter J. Bradford purchased 21 Fifteenth street South in Edgartown from Amy Hahn for $24,000 on Feb. 24.

Each spring, the sound of squeaky sneakers on the gym floor ends as the Vineyard’s youth basketball travel team ends its season. But not anymore.

Island dancer Abby Bender found her passion through an untraditional path.

Island school officials have updated a resolution designed to protect students and their families, with new language stating explicitly that federal agents are not welcome on public school property. 

The Friends of Mill Pond believe that the survival of West Tisbury’s Mill Pond is not simply a matter of aesthetics or sentimentality.

Humans, as a species, have over the course of history brought great change to the planet, mostly at the cost of fragile ecosystems around the globe.

From the March 5, 1954 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: This year it seems to have been the pinkletinks instead of a lion or a lamb, which ushered in the month of March.

I learned today of the passing of Barbara Murphy, my beloved MVRHS Spanish teacher, and later my colleague and department chair, friend and fellow Up-Islander, mi querida.

I will always remember you telling Greg Scotten that I “just got back from studying in Salamanca.” Thus, with your loving, kind and direct blessing I became part of the MVRHS orbit to teach Spanish with you.

Barbara Murphy and I met in the fall of 1976 when I began teaching at MVRHS and she was completing her first year there. I was teaching social studies and for Barbara, it was Spanish. We quickly became fast friends and for all these years remained so.

Editors, Vineyard Gazette;

How on God’s green earth can a task force made up of groups such as the Vineyard Conservation Society promote the clear-cutting of 175 acres worth of healthy white pine trees from the state forest?

The proponents of this deforestation plan say it is needed (1) for fire safety and (2) because white pine trees are not native to this Island. Both arguments are flimsy and far outweighed by the benefits of leaving the trees as they are.