Snowy owls have been spotted in unusually large numbers throughout the Eastern Seaboard this year, including on the Vineyard. Beaches and open habitat resemble their native Arctic tundra.

The financially-strapped Vineyard Nursing Association has signed an agreement to sell its operations on both Islands to Cape Cod Healthcare, a large consortium that owns a visiting nurse agency.

Many policies are changing over effective March 31, including Network Health, popular among Islanders with low and moderate incomes. Health care providers confirm the confusion.

On-Island, community-based, homegrown: these are the virtues we tend to celebrate. So it is that the decision by the Vineyard Nursing Association to sell out to an off-Island home health care group doesn’t sit easily.

This week the selectmen in the shire town approved a request by a new homeowner to remove four old shade trees on South Water street in Edgartown.

The Martha’s Vineyard Food & Wine Festival has announced a new festival director. AJ Williams takes over the festival started by the Edgartown Board of Trade to enhance tourism on the Vineyard in the off-season.

Revisiting a controversial issue that has been dormant since summer, the Oak Bluffs selectmen voted Tuesday to approve a set of regulations that prohibit food trucks in the heart of downtown.

With the news that solar developer Broadway Electrical would be closing its operation, Tisbury selectmen this week discussed other options for completing construction of a town solar array.

Come summer, visitors can admire the old ice pond from new viewing platforms and walk around the pond towards John Butler’s Mudhole on new boardwalks as Sheriff's Meadow gets makeover.


Korrine Altieri of Edgartown was named to the fall 2013 dean’s list at the University of Vermont.