The Edgartown police department now has a school resource officer at the school all day, every day, and as part of a pilot program fire personnel are on hand one day a week. Besides filling in wherever they are needed, the program aims to provide school safety, educate students and build community relationships with the police department.

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission Thursday approved a request from the grocery chain to postpone a public hearing scheduled for Feb. 20 to March 20. The drawn-out process has become one of many sticking points in the expansion plan.

It’s difficult to imagine today, but there was a time before resorthood on Martha’s Vineyard — a time before summer houses, before restaurants and shops and sportfishing and sailing.

Chilmark will go to the state’s highest court to block a group of riparian owners from using herbicideson Squibnocket Pond.

Martha's Vineyard Museum's new exhibit illuminates good advertising campaigns from days gone by.

A Vineyard Haven man was arrested on drug charges in Oak Bluffs Wednesday after police found him coming off a commuter ferry carrying 10 grams of heroin.

There are 140 nonnative English speakers in the public schools across the Island, the highest count in recent memory. Most are second generation U.S. residents. Educators are responding by setting a standard for excellence in learning.

Last Friday the State Department released its final environmental impact review of the proposed northern segment of the Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil pipeline. The immediate reaction from the press was that the environmental community would be disappointed as the review said the project “is unlikely to significantly affect the rate of extraction in oil sands areas.”

The stretch weeks between December 1933 and February 1934 caused remarkable things to happen on the waters around Martha’s Vineyard. Everything froze, from Woods Hole to Cape Pogue.

This haiku came to me after my last phone call with my Uncle Leo. In fact, it was my last phone call with him, period. He died on the last day of 2013. I never thought I’d hear myself saying this, but it was a blessing.