A U.S. Coast Guard plan to remove hundreds of navigation buoys in the northeast, including about 20 around the Vineyard, Woods Hole and Gosnold, has raised concerns with some Island mariners. 

A ground-breaking ceremony for the new building under construction at Martha’s Vineyard Community Services in Oak Bluffs drew close to 100 people Friday afternoon, including local officials, tribal leaders, MVCS staff and board members.

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission is fast-tracking its review of a proposal by the Martha’s Vineyard Airport to renovate and expand the terminal in West Tisbury.

At the break of dawn on Saturday, five-year-old Aurora Lapierre reeled in a 14-inch trout at Duarte’s Pond using her rainbow striped pole and worms she had named Wormy and Squirmy.

Next Level Chef contestant Ryan Scanlon, who first discovered his passion for cooking as a teenager at Alchemy in Edgartown, was eliminated from the reality cooking show on Thursday, but got commendations from the judges.

More than 60 right whales were sighted 55 miles south of the Island in an aerial survey conducted by the New England Aquarium’s Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life on April 23.

The board of assessors presented a payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) program to the select board during a select board meeting Wednesday.

Little Lady, a historic vessel that has fished out of Menemsha for decades, has left its harbor.

The dead minke whale was found washed ashore on Black Point Beach in Chilmark on Sunday.

Martha’s Vineyard Community Services will formally break ground Friday on construction of a new building that will include a wing named for author William Styron and his widow, poet Rose Styron, who still lives in the couple’s Vineyard Haven home.