Call it new math, but the Dukes County Commission may have finally figured out how to get the Martha’s Vineyard Airport Commission under its thumb: make it bigger.

Roster Changes

Baseball is about many things — hot dogs and home runs, stolen bases and broken hearts, steamy nights and cold truths — and one of these is that baseball is ultimately a business.

Two filmmakers have been on-Island for about three weeks following around sword maker Michael Craughwell for a show which will air on the Discovery Channel.

The Gay Head Light relocation project will be referred to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission for possible review as a development of regional impact, the Aquinnah planning board decided this week.

Four affordable housing lots in Chilmark that became available this year are drawing interest from Island residents.

Conservation groups around the Island are struggling to protect piping plovers and other shorebirds from an abundance of skunks and crows, which have learned to seek food on Island beaches during the summer.

Hans-Jürgen Melderis hails from Hamburg, Germany, and on Monday he presented a program entitled Other Life in the Universe? On NASA’s Discovery of Extra Solar Earth-like Planets in the Goldilocks Zone.

After writing last week about the lack of dogs at the animal shelter, one appeared a few days ago. Scooby is a large red male Doberman. He is three years old and, so far, seems to have a sweet nature.

It’s time again for the 17th annual Manhattan Short Film Festival. It is billed as the world’s first global film festival.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $302,140 for the business week ending on Friday, Sept. 19, 2014.