A signature injury from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, traumatic brain injury is the topic of a presentation and panel discussion on Saturday, Jan. 31, from 10 a.m. to noon.

Did you check on your neighbors during the blizzard of 2015? Not just the human kind, but those who share our environment and exist outdoors in the most brutal conditions?

Are we doomed? Is the end of the world nigh? Should you be worried? Depends on whom you ask and whom you believe.

Many thanks to our highway department Keith Emin’s trusty crew of snow plowers for clearing our town roadways.

Batteries, bread, shovels and gas were in hot demand Monday as Islanders prepared for the winter storm expected to hit the Island Monday evening. "It's like a summer day," said Shirley's Hardware employee Debbie Healy.

For the loneliness and unfocused anxiety, the smug indifference to the environment, the dreary boredom of life in the technological society, the sovereign cure is a well-organized New England storm.

R. Kristin Brown and Timothy Brown of Edgartown announce the birth of a daughter, Tabitha R. Brown, born on Jan. 21 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.

The commission late last week quickly approved a $1.42 million budget for fiscal year 2016, marking a 2.4 per cent decrease from last year. Modest increases in salaries and employee benefits were offset by a $52,000 reduction in legal spending.

In honor of Black History Month on Saturday, Feb. 7, the League of Women Voters of Martha’s Vineyard will host guest speaker Clennon L. King.

Back by popular demand, the Martha’s Vineyard Museum is again celebrating the faces of the Vineyard with a second Island Faces portrait competition in collaboration with Featherstone Center for the Arts.