At the ferry line’s board of governors meeting Tuesday, Steamship staff said they were increasing the number of employees who can green light cancellations, expanding the call center hours and making other attempts to improve communication with customers about the status of ferries.

With April vacation in the books, spring sports at the high school are at full sail as the Vineyard’s student athletes battle in their divisions across the water, diamond, court, field and track.

The select board Tuesday voted to hold a special town meeting on June 25 at 7 p.m. at the Oak Bluffs Elementary School to reauthorize two borrowing articles that were approved at the 2022 annual town meeting. 

Chilmark landscaper, caretaker and former fishmonger Jeffrey Maida won a race for town select board on Wednesday night, narrowly beating out William Meegan by a vote of 267 to 222.

An open casting call for the Netflix adaptation of Judy Blume’s book Forever will take place April 27 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at The Loft Night Club in Oak Bluffs.

Birders love migration! Birds are arriving that we have not seen since last year.

Take this advice, label your seeds.

For a couple of nights this week, the forecasters are warning of a possible frost.

West Tisbury residents will get a chance this week to weigh in on what path their town should take in the coming decades at a series of public visioning sessions put on as part of the town’s Master Plan development process. 

A hidden spreadsheet entry contained $1.8 million in long-forgotten funds — more than enough to balance the town’s $40 million budget, according to Tisbury finance director Jon Snyder.