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Most electrical components have roughly doubled in price since 2020. Those costs, along with equipment shortages, have led to an overall rise in the price of building and wiring a home.

The Oak Bluffs planning board voted 3-2 to oppose a citizen petition to allow marijuana businesses downtown. The petition will go before voters at town meeting in April.

The Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association (MVCMA) has established a new challenge match to support fundraising for the project of restoring the Tabernacle roof.

Four researchers and educators traveled to the Vineyard to take part in the event on Nov. 8, organized by MV Signs: Then and Now, a project founded in 2016 by Islander Lynn Thorp to teach and revive ASL.

Islanders old and young are invited to Healthy Aging MV’s Community Mobilization Summit on Aging event on Tuesday, Nov. 14.

The Steamship Authority’s governing board never saw the results of an internal investigation into the M/V Sankaty incident of July 27 until they were released to the press this week, board member James Malkin told the Gazette.

Island military veterans and active service members marched through the streets of downtown Oak Bluffs Saturday morning for the annual Martha’s Vineyard Veterans Day parade, hosted by the Dukes County Veterans Service Center.

You got to love the crisp, clear nights of autumn. Now that we are in the time of Standard Time, and put Daylight Savings time away, we get an early dose of evening. Trips home from work are dark.

Step outside before the dinner hour and the brightest of stars are already overhead. To those who wait a little longer, the Milky Way is an easy find.

The Milky Way extends overhead and across the sky, rising in the northeast and passing overhead, then descending down to the southwestern horizon.

The Island Food Pantry’s proposed new food distribution center in Oak Bluffs appears to be on a glide path after the project won unanimous approval last week from the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.