The Vineyard Haven Public Library begins a Tuesday film series showcasing the Oscar nominated films on April 1.

On Monday, members of the library building committee, library trustees, town selectmen, the Edgartown school principal, the building architect and project manager were on hand to commemorate the Edgartown library groundbreaking.

Robert and Janice Rose are happy to announce the engagement of their daughter, Krystle, to Alex Schaeffer, son of David Schaeffer.

A coyote washed up on Lambert's Cove Beach on Friday, reigniting theories about one or two living on the Island. But experts believe this coyote drifted over from the Elizabeth Islands.

Judging by the cars parked along both sides of State Road and the full parking lot of Alley’s, it might have been a summer Saturday in West Tisbury. Instead the crowd of more than 150 people were headed to the opening of the new West Tisbury library.

A letter from the town of Tisbury concerning the town parking lot is the cause of another bump in the road in Stop & Shop's effort to get approval for an expanded Vineyard Haven store. The Martha's Vineyard Commission held a four-hour hearing Thursday, then continued it to April 17.

Welcome to Spring

Today is the first full day of spring. Spring arrived yesterday at 12:57 p.m. The length of our day and night is about the same and tonight all the constellations we associate with spring slowly parade across the sky.

Realtors on Martha's Vineyard and the Martha's Vineyard Land Bank are reporting that Island real estate sales are on the rise. For qualifying transactions, revenues per transaction from the last two years are also up.

Visits to the guidance office at the high school are up, and guidance counselors at the middle schools say anxiety and depression is affecting kids younger than previously observed.

The Vineyard Nursing Association announced an agreement to sell its operations to Cape Cod Health Care in January. Last week that agreement fell through.