Keri L. Thomas and Delmar Dwayney Thomas of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a daughter, Carina Maria Thomas, born on Dec. 23 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.

Traffic on upper Main street, Edgartown, was interrupted this morning after a water main broke in front of Sharky's Cantina. Police, fire, highway department crews, along with members of the water department, responded at 9:59 a.m.

Here are the 10 stories from Martha's Vineyard that received the most traffic on vineyardgazette.com during 2014.

A crescent moon decorates our early evening skies this weekend. The moon is in the zodiacal constellation Pisces. It will reach First Quarter phase on Sunday night.

Each night in the coming week, the moon will appear to climb higher in the sky. The moon is moving through the zodiac. On New Years Eve, the moon is gibbous and entering into the zodiacal constellation Taurus.

It snowed as if it would never stop snowing. A resort economy sputtered back to life. History came alive and sailed down the Sound into Vineyard Haven harbor. These were a few benchmarks of the year.

Every Christmas on Martha’s Vineyard is an old fashioned Christmas, even though the observance came relatively late to New England. The three youths who advanced to the front of a platform in an Island school and sang with voices hardly breaking at all, We Three Kings of Israel Are, were pioneers.

'Twas Christmas Eve and Santa Claus was readying for his trip to see his Vineyard friends, of course, but traveling not by ship, nor ferry boat nor freight boat nor on the Island Queen. He comes by air each Christmastide thanks to his reindeer team.

From midnight mass to services for children with music and stories, churches around the Vineyard are open for worship on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Nature seems to whisper during a snowstorm as a blanketing hush falls over the land, sky and sea. Even the foghorn sounds muffled.

The rock and the general — those are the words I use to describe my paternal grandparents. Herbert and Claire Mercier, married for 63 years, created a life on Cooke street in Edgartown.