While eyeing the cold winter water from several stories up on an Island ferry, my thoughts wandered as I looked out on the frigid expanse of the Sound.

It's January and golfers in the know are heading to the Oak Bluffs library.

A longstanding controversy over the operations and management of the tennis program at the Chilmark Community Center came to a head this week when a citizen petition was presented to the select board.

As restaurateur Patrick Lyons prepares to open his new taqueria at the Stone Bank complex this spring, developer Sam Dunn is planning another eatery in the former bank's historic lobby.

Courtney Campbell and Jarrett Campbell, of Oak Bluffs, announce the birth of a daughter, Cecelia Lyn Campbell, born on Jan. 16 at the Martha's Vineyard Hospital.

The Martha's Vineyard Film Festival invites Island filmmakers to submit to Vineyard Shorts, a special showcase to be screened at the annual festival.

The budget allocates nearly $400,000 in 2024 for the hybrid ferry, which many residents and officials have been pushing for in recent years to reduce the ferry line’s emissions in the face of climate change. 

A one-article special town meeting will be held Monday on whether to lease town land to the private nonprofit Chilmark Preschool for the purpose of constructing their own building.

Declaring a state of emergency expedites the permitting process to dredge and restore sand in the area and opens the town to additional sources of funding and reimbursement from the Massachusetts emergency management agency (MEMA).

We currently have no residents and are undergoing a major cleaning so we will be ready when our next adoptable pets arrive.