The town’s police and fire departments have completed safety plans for the festival, an expert has been called in to evaluate the conditions of the park fields and a protocol to deal with the festival’s sound is being put into place.

The long awaited meteor shower of the year is this weekend. The Perseid Meteor Shower, the most popular shower of the year, takes place tomorrow night into Sunday morning. Keep your eyes to the heavens this weekend and through the coming week for shooting stars, meteors passing overhead.

The Vineyard Haven Public Library Building Fund, Inc. has announced a $150,000 challenge grant for the library's capital campaign.

I am overwhelmed with gratitude to our Island community who so generously supported the Give Me Shelter Art Show on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The annual Friends of the West Tisbury Library Book Sale was a tremendous success.

Our family is wrapping up 38 years of summer vacations on the Island.

Though it has nutrient poor soil and its scrub oak prairies are prone to wildfires, the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest has, against all odds, flourished as a refuge of biodiversity.

My family has always loved the Vineyard, and we have spent chunks of time here since 1981.

Since April, the Historic District Committee (HDC) has considered plans for altering the 1912 Mayhew house at 81 South Water street.

When Valci Carvalho was a teenager, newly moved to Martha’s Vineyard from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he took a job at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Twenty years later, he's running his own department there.