Earlier last month, Chris Aring-Sharkovitz's family created a GoFundMe campaign to help with medical expenses for a heart and liver transplant. Currently, over $71,000 in donations have been raised towards the $100,000 goal.

In an effort to protect one of the last large classes of fish now reaching breeding age, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission dropped the recreational maximum keeper size limit for a striped bass from 35 inches to 31.

The Vineyard Gazette was honored with 32 awards at the New England Better Newspaper Competition held in Waltham over the weekend, including 10 first place prizes.

The two evening planets, Mars and Venus are in the western sky. The two are appearing closer and closer. Venus is the brighter of the two and commands the most attention. Venus looks like an airplane with running lights on, ready for landing.

The red planet Mars is dull and distant. Mars has lost so much of its brilliance from a few months ago it now looks like a regular star. You've got to work a little bit to pick it out amid the stars in the constellation Gemini. Venus and Mars will come close together in June, so we've all got time to watch their movement.

A conference about tick-borne diseases on the Island will take place on June 10 from 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven.

Led by Thomas Bena, founder and former director of the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival, and advisor Jake Davis, Stillpoint Meadows aims to be a gathering place for classes, talks and other events.

Juliana Dostal and Ralph (Skip) Dostal, of Vineyard Haven, announce the birth of a son, Samuel Eli, born on April 28.

Danielle Charbonneau, a teacher at the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School and the 2023 Massachusetts Teacher of the Year, joined other state teachers of the year from across the country who participated in the National Teacher of the Year Program Washington Week.

The new cap on spending commits the school to only use the remaining balance of this year's legal budget on the turf appeal.

Omar Johnson signed a plea agreement with prosecutors in late March, saying he would plead guilty to charges in connection with the armed robbery of a Rockland Trust Bank.