The up-Island school committee this week weighed proposals to allow in-person learning for younger students in its reopening plan, although no final decision was made.

The Martha’s Vineyard Museum board of directors announced this week that it has elected a new slate of officers.

The crescent moon appears near the bright star Spica tomorrow night.

Popular Island lecturer Philip Weinstein, professor emeritus at Swarthmore College, begins an online course on James Joyce's Ulysses Sept. 9.

After a surprise shakeup in leadership last week, the Martha’s Vineyard Airport has a new director. But the process stood in stark contrast to 15 months ago.

Martha’s Vineyard nonprofit MV Youth has awarded $800,000 to expand two early child care programs at Island private schools.

The donations to Plum Hill School and Vineyard Montessori School will support the development of toddler programs to increase the limited number of licensed child care spaces on Martha’s Vineyard for children 15 months to 2.9 years old, according to an announcement from MV Youth. Taken together, the two projects will add 27 new toddler spaces and 18 new preschool spaces by summer 2021.

The Island market has rocketed upward since the start of the pandemic, with dramatic sale price increases and broad reordering as urban buyers gravitate toward the Island.

We wish the transfer of power at the airport had been more public.

Edgartown wanted Katama Farm to be a working farm. The Trustees have been unable to meet that definition.