The Chilmark select board interviewed three finalists for the job and is expected to make a decision on Wednesday.

The Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Society is offering cold weather shelter for backyard and barn animals and livestock this weekend.

An attempt to stop a cell tower on Chappaquiddick was dismissed by a state Land Court judge last week, effectively ending the years-long legal challenges on the project.

Sherborn-based veterinarian Suzanne Loheac came to the Island last week to lead a class in emergency equine first aid at the Misty Meadows barn in West Tisbury.

Voters in Gosnold, the state’s smallest town, approved key funding last week to build a fuel farm after going three years without a reliable fuel source.

The miniature liquor bottles have come under scrutiny across Massachusetts and across the Island as lawmakers argue they pose a littering problem.

The air smelled of straw, sawdust and livestock at the agricultural fairgrounds this Saturday, and the bahs ands bleets of sheep mingled with shouts of excited children.

Racial justice advocates gathered and knelt at Beetlebung Corner Sunday for a silent vigil in memory of Tyre Nichols, a Memphis man killed by five police officers earlier this month.

With the $81 million Tisbury School project well under way, town leaders now are looking at their next building challenge: an up to date, consolidated location for municipal offices.

On Monday night the gibbous moon appears close to the red planet Mars. Both are in the zodiacal constellation Taurus. For those who have watched Mars, the planet has clearly lost its brilliance of a month ago. When Mars was in opposition in early December, it was the brightest it has been in many years. Mars is now farther from us and thus not as bright. Astronomers estimate the planet is 81 million miles away, almost twice as far away as it was two months ago. Our Earth is moving rapidly away from Mars By the end of February Mars will be 102 million miles away.