Noel Hogan and Charles Metros, of Aquinnah, announce the birth of a son, Henry Alexander Metros, born on Dec. 31 at the Martha's Vineyard Hospital.

Rachel Cook and Emmett Cook, of Edgartown, announce the birth of a son, Ryder Jay Cook, born on Dec. 29 at the Martha's Vineyard Hospital.

The conditions were promising for the Christmas Bird Count count — not too cold, not too windy and no fog — as 13 teams fanned out around the Island for the annual check-in with our avian community.

In a new documentary that began filming in December, director Catherine Stewart and her crew of four will follow Shenandoah’s 61st sailing season, the boat's restoration process and the lives of her captains and sailors past and present.

There is a small and welcome display of meteors to begin the New Year. The Quadrantids meteor shower takes place in the wee hours of Thursday morning. The best time is around 3 a.m. and this shower is relatively short. The shower's radiant is under the Big Dipper rising in the Northeastern sky after midnight. While it is not a common shower, the next shower isn't for months, until April's Lyrid meteor shower. So, by default the Quadrantids has some degree of popularity among those who enjoy seeing shooting stars crossing the sky.

Julia Doane and Matthew Dolan, of West Tisbury, announce the birth of a daughter, Rosemarie Julia Doane, born on Dec. 26 at the Martha's Vineyard Hospital.

An Atlantic storm crashed over the eastern strip of Norton Point Beach in the last days of 2022, inundating Wasque wetlands and disconnecting Chappaquiddick once again. The breach created an old, yet new island to ring in 2023, a fitting start for a year in which many longstanding issues resurfaced.

Camilla Fales de Bragança and Marco Lorenzo Hartmann were married on Nov. 4 at an outdoor ceremony at the Mill Reef Club on the Island of Antigua, W.I.

The Martha’s Vineyard Times announced Wednesday that the newspaper will come under new ownership in January.

Here are 10 of the stories that most engaged Gazette readers in print and online in 2023.