The boys hockey team, girls hockey team and boys basketball team have made it into the winter sports playoffs and have their first matchups this week.

In a garage-top office near the Tisbury School, as a small group of tradesmen prepared their morning coffee, Alan P. Fortes reflected on a lifetime in the plumbing business.

The show at the Oak Bluffs Library offers a rare glimpse of what’s on the minds of five Island teenagers enrolled in the high school's Advanced Placement art course.

The Chappaquiddick summer home owned by Sue and Jerry Wacks that has been severely threatened by the recent breach along Norton Point was demolished over the weekend.

A proposed zoning amendment to allow affordable housing projects on private roads in Tisbury with a special permit has split the town’s planning board.

Jonathan Chatinover was elected chair of the council, known to most as the MV DEMs. Beth O’Connor was elected vice chair.

A dispute over events held at the Vineyard Preservation Trust’s Grange Hall ended Thursday when the West Tisbury zoning board of appeals granted a special permit to the nonprofit.

Featherstone Center for the Arts invites artists to submit works for its upcoming exhibit, An Abundance of Color.

The two brightest planets, Jupiter and Venus, appear close together on the evening of Wednesday, March 1. You'll see the two low in the southwestern sky right after sunset. In this conjunction the two are only a half a degree apart. To most observers the two will look as one bright object, as bright as an airplane approaching the runway with its landing lights on.

Moon and Mars

The Edgartown parks department has unveiled its draft beach management plan for the two-mile strip of shorefront at Norton Point.