A dispute over events held at the Vineyard Preservation Trust’s Grange Hall ended Thursday when the West Tisbury zoning board of appeals granted a special permit to the nonprofit.

Featherstone Center for the Arts invites artists to submit works for its upcoming exhibit, An Abundance of Color.

The two brightest planets, Jupiter and Venus, appear close together on the evening of Wednesday, March 1. You'll see the two low in the southwestern sky right after sunset. In this conjunction the two are only a half a degree apart. To most observers the two will look as one bright object, as bright as an airplane approaching the runway with its landing lights on.

Moon and Mars

The Edgartown parks department has unveiled its draft beach management plan for the two-mile strip of shorefront at Norton Point.

Along the Edgartown-West Tisbury Road just past Bluebird Way near the airport there is an extra chill in the air, the cause of which dates back to the ice age.

Coach Mike Joyce has led the varsity basketball program for 20 years. His team is 17-2 this year, and ranked number one in the league.

The relocation of the WHOI Pioneer Array from Vineyard waters to North Carolina signals the end of an era for the high-tech system, one of five active stations in the National Science Foundation’s Ocean Observatories Initiative.

The Tisbury select board voted unanimously Wednesday afternoon to award a common victuallers’ license to Catboat Coffee Co., which will receive it once the shop’s fire inspection passes muster with Chief Greg Leland.

It's school break week and that means the Island empties out and activities slow to a trickle.

We are proud to see ongoing and new conversations around race and multiculturalism on Martha's Vineyard.