The Martha's Vineyard Chamber of Commerce announced this week that Erica Ashton would be taking over the executive director role. She said she's excited to enter a "new era" with the chamber.

The Steamship Authority plans to halt advertising on its ferries after a PETA ad ruffled feathers with fishermen and boat line officials. 

At the 79th annual iteration of the derby, which runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 19, false albacore will be eligible for daily awards and daily prize money is going up.  

When New York artist Louis Eisner was asked to create his solo exhibit, Persona non grata, for the Winter Street Gallery in Edgartown, he was reading Naked Lunch, the infamous novel by William S. Burroughs.

Chilmark voters approved allocating about $400,000 to various projects at a speedy special town meeting Monday evening. 

Ben Shattuck will discuss The History of Sound this Saturday at the Bunch of Grapes bookstore, in conversation with poet and Aquinnah resident Ron Slate, who also happens to be his father in law.

Jack Doriss and Taylor Kracht were married in Boone, N.C. on the weekend of June 8.

The Vineyard Wind project has been shut down indefinitely while federal regulators investigate how a 107-meter blade folded over, spilling white and green fiberglass debris into the ocean.

Main street in Vineyard Haven was partially closed for several hours Monday after firefighters responded to a faulty furnace in a building. 

Author Amor Towles compares writing a short story to sitting next to a couple fighting loudly at a restaurant.