Ten years ago, two donors and their local contacts had an idea. They wanted to set the Island’s next generation up for success, while dispensing with the high organizational costs of most nonprofits.

Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine and brother to Island artist Elizabeth Whelan, has been released from Russian custody more than five years after an arrest that the U.S. government condemned as spurious.

The Martha’s Vineyard Sharks clinched a playoff berth Wednesday afternoon, despite not having to play a game.

State contractors entered the state forest this week and cleared three homeless encampments, razing tents and leaving several Islanders without their possessions.

We are ecstatic to tell you about our pets of the week. We have two five-year-old pure-bred Labs: Biscuit a yellow lab and Homer a black lab.

Though pieces of the broken Vineyard Wind turbine continued to fall into the ocean south of the Island this week, federal regulators have approved the wind farm to lay cables.

Della Brown Taylor Hardman was born in 1922 in Charleston. W.V.

Sean Herron, 31, of San Antonio, Tx., was arraigned on July 19 charges in Edgartown of operating under the influence of liquor.

Edgartown sent out a swimming advisory to beachgoers Wednesday after pieces of foam from Vineyard Wind’s broken wind turbine washed up on Norton Point and South Beach. 

A third man accused of aiding in the robbery of the Rockland Trust bank in Vineyard Haven in 2022 has agreed to plead guilty.