Kathy and I gathered with family in Sarasota, Fla. for Thanksgiving at the home of my daughter Caroline and son Brian.

Thank you to all who made a valiant effort to keep the Island Cup on the Vineyard.

It’s beginning to look a lot like winter, as well it should.

The biggest planet in our solar system will be at its closest to the Earth tomorrow. Jupiter is 380 million miles away, it's closest in a year.

Jupiter is big. And while it is close, its brilliance is not much brighter than usual. Being close helps, but the planet is so remarkably faraway and big, it really doesn't matter.

Tuesdays in the Newsroom returns next week, with an open house at the Vineyard Gazette office in Edgartown.

Over 300 families will have gifts under the tree this year thanks to the work of the Red Stocking Fund.

The all-Island school committee last month voted unanimously to form a working group to study the potential of unifying the Vineyard’s two regional and three town school districts into a single district, covering all six schools.

The Marine Biological Laboratory and Great Pond Foundation are collecting water samples along Edgartown Great Pond in hopes of unlocking the source of nitrogen that has been polluting the pond.

As regulators consider projects up and down the east coast, researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have been simulating the booming sound of pile driving turbine monopiles to see if it has an effect on a variety of species.

Allison Provost and David C. Provost 2nd purchased 57 Curtis Lane in Edgartown from Holland Curtis LLC. for $4,251,350 on Nov. 25.