Facing a growing demand for services and nearly $500,000 in school spending requests, West Tisbury selectmen will ask voters for a Proposition 2 1/2 general override to ease pressure on the town budget this year.

An Oak Bluffs man is facing criminal charges after a collision between a Tisbury police cruiser and a small dump truck occurred on the Lagoon Pond drawbridge Thursday afternoon, state police confirmed. The police officer driving the cruiser sustained minor injuries.

Lying on his kitchen floor, alone and unable to get up, Michael J. Fox discovered that his characteristic optimism had reached its limit.

The long-debated, state-funded $6 million Vineyard Haven Beach Road improvement project is starting to seem like a mini version of the infamous Big Dig in Boston, as it drags on for years with no clear blueprint for the future.

Marianna De Paula and Tyler Araujo, of Oak Bluffs, announce the birth of a son, Noah Anthony Araujo, born on Feb. 9 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.

Cristina and Greg Martino, of Vineyard Haven, announce the birth of a daughter, Elena Taylor Martino, born on Feb. 15 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.

As usual there were lots of celebrity cameos in the Super Bowl commercials this year — Martha Stewart, John Travolta, Kyle Busch, Carl Weathers. There was also a familiar Vineyard face: Emma Lovewell.

I am being driven around the Island by my son Hardy, from Oak Bluffs to Edgartown, across to Vineyard Haven, then up through West Tisbury, Chilmark and Aquinnah.

From the Feb. 18, 1966 edition of the Gazette:

While I am forever grateful for our first responders who have served the Island so continuously and selflessly during this pandemic, I also wanted to call attention to another group that has risen to the occasion, our Island libraries — and for me, the Oak Bluffs library.