Linsay Coye and Thomas Coye, of Edgartown, announce the birth of a daughter, Blake Frances Coye, born on Feb. 15 at the Martha's Vineyard Hospital.

Richard Meier and Justin Power, linguistics professors at the University of Texas, have published a new paper entitled The Historical Demography of the Martha’s Vineyard Signing Community, inspired by the seminal work of anthropologist Nora Ellen Groce.

After neighbors of Vineyard Montessori School objected earlier this month to the size and scale of a proposed new preschool building on the Vineyard Haven campus, head of school Deborah Jernegan and attorney Ross Seavey presented a modified design to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.

The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School performing arts department cured the winter doldrums over the weekend with its timeless story of mistaken identity, love at first sight and the life-changing power of a really good practical joke.

The two morning planets, Venus and Mars, are really close together.

West Tisbury voters will still get a chance to weigh in on whether to install artificial turf at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High school, after the town select board agreed to keep a non-binding ballot question on this year’s election ballot.

From the February 15, 1929 edition of the Vineyard Gazette :Democracy at its best, in the institution of the good old-fashioned town meeting, functioned on the Vineyard this week.

Everybody here has a gig, sometimes two or three. They are craftsman, artists, master chefs, farriers, healers or visionaries. But what was I?

One winter I rented a house, high on a hill in Chilmark, overlooking the Atlantic. The sun came and went. The ocean changed from grey to green to blue, white caps here and there, now and then.

Please leave the turf question on the ballot. I