West Tisbury Passes New Limits on Short-Term Rentals

West Tisbury is now the first town on the Island to enact regulations around short-term rentals, though other towns have also started to consider the best way to handle the controversial properties. 

Voters Have Their Say at Three Town Meetings Tuesday

Oak Bluffs voters rejected the controversial light industrial mixed use proposal, Edgartown residents decided to postpone a proposed party bylaw indefinitely, and after a long discussion West Tisbury passed regulations on short-term rentals.

New Steamship Website Expected in June

Only a small list of outstanding items, including load testing and making sure reservations can be canceled and changed, are left to straighten out before the Steamship Authority launches its new website. 

Vineyard Haven Slip Work Scheduled to End in May

The Steamship Authority's port council Tuesday heard reports on the slip work, as well as the progress on the ferry line's new freight boats.

Edgartown to Hold Island's First Porchfest

A musical festival concept that has caught on in places across New England is coming to Martha’s Vineyard for the first time next month. 

Seeking Poet Laureate Nominations

The Martha’s Vineyard Poet Laureate Society is looking for the Island’s next poet laureate. The position is a two-year term, and aimed at fostering connections through poetry.

Town Meeting Issues Illuminate Island's Growing Pains

A few years ago, the Vineyard Conservation Society (VCS) tasked itself with adding to its traditional mission statement (roughly, “What does VCS do?”) a new vision statement (“Why do we do it?”).

Town Meeting Season Begins Today

Democracy at the ground level — in a grammar school gym, a town hall and a performing arts center — arrives today when a trio of town meetings opens the political season on the Vineyard.

Feds Sign Off on New England Wind

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on April 2 greenlighted New England Wind's plans for 129 turbines in an area about 20 nautical miles south of the Island.

Vineyarders Look to the Skies, Embracing the Eclipse

They gathered at libraries, schools, on the Main streets of towns and in backyards. They huddled on beach chairs, stood at the Aquinnah Cliffs, the Big Bridge and anywhere else that offered prime viewing spots. And in Edgartown, a couple were married at town hall.

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