What is Hanukkah?”
That is how the Talmud opens its discussion of the holiday.

It’s evening time and the deer family awaits me.
I carry their food to the circle of hoof prints
Lying at the foot of Thunder Hill.

The Tisbury select board voted unanimously Wednesday to offer the job of town administrator to Joseph J. LaCivita, currently the general manager for Watervliet, N.Y.

From the Dec. 23, 1949 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Santa Claus arrived on the Vineyard on Tuesday afternoon by airplane.

There is a small but convenient meteor shower late on Saturday night. The center of the Ursid meteor shower is right up near the Little Dipper and the best time is before the moon rises later in the evening.

Each year, on Christmas Eve, the First Congregational Church of West Tisbury hosts a community pageant at the Agricultural Hall attended by over 800 people.

We are thrilled to report that LoLo has found her forever home. There really are Christmas angels out there, and we thank you.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $287,109.50 for the business week ending on Friday, Dec. 13, 2024.

Tuesday, Dec. 24

Chilmark Community Church: Lessons and Carols Christmas Eve service, 5 to 6 p.m., Chilmark Community Church, 9 Menemsha Crossroads, chilmarkchurch.org, 508-645-3100.

Faith Community Church, Christmas Eve candlight service, 5 p.m., 231 Meetinghouse Way, Edgartown, 508-627-8918.

Federated Church of Martha’s Vineyard, Christmas Eve candlelight service of carols and lessons, 5 p.m., 45 South Summer street, Edgartown, federatedchurchmv.org, 508-627-4221.

Miquel Jones, who prosecutors say was the ringleader of the 2022 armed robbery of the Rockland Trust bank, was sentenced in federal court Wednesday.