Aquinnah residents dedicated more than $500,000 to improving municipal infrastructure and town-owned properties at the annual town meeting Tuesday.

The dead gator was found on Saturday at Sepiessa Point Reservation in West Tisbury, a police spokesperson confirmed.

The Tisbury School committee will be seeing a new face as Alicia Lesnikowska defeated incumbent member Michael Watts for a three-year term on the committee.

MVYouth has awarded almost $1 million in education scholarships for 11 graduating seniors this year.

Harrison Lazarus, a junior at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, is teaming up with the Harley Riders and local businesses to raise money for Island veterans.

Josh Kegan and Enrica Rossi’s boat the S/V Lúthien appeared on the horizon of Menemsha Harbor on Saturday morning for the first time in a year.

A beacon familiar to Island travelers is changing hands after about 200 years of government management. 

Last Monday, the court announced it would not take up the appeal filed by the Responsible Offshore Development Alliance, keeping a previous ruling on the 62-turbine Vineyard Wind project intact.

When Jim Boos, a retired yacht captain living on Bequia, took it upon himself to help the community rebuild a historic whaleboat called the Iron Duke, he hired Ross Gannon and Nat Benjamin to fly down this winter with their families and a few tools and help get the local boatbuilders started.

The Chilmark conservation commission gave property owners along Stonewall Beach permission to relocate their homes and bolster the deteriorating cliff. But, upset with what they consider burdensome limits on the plan, the homeowners have filed an appeal.