The numbers of birds in the U.S. has declined by fifty percent since 1966!

We are blessed to have so many artists living here.

We have been enjoying some pretty nice weather.

I'm not sure if I came up with this saying on my own or, perhaps, I read it somewhere, but like raking the leaves in fall, gathering all the leaves from our family tree is a wonderful experience.

The first of three CPR classes to be held at the Chappy Community Center is scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 14 from 1 to 4 p.m.

Buoyed by more than $28 million in newly-available federal funding, the Steamship Authority is preparing to buy a third vessel from Louisiana-based Hornbeck Offshore Services.

The Dukes County Commission voted last week to request $600,000 from the Island towns for a renovation to the Vineyard Health Care Access Program building on New York avenue in Oak Bluffs.

The Martha's Vineyard Regional High School committee voted unanimously in favor of letting the Island's winter homeless shelter return to school-owned property at Martha's Vineyard Community Services.

The Martha's Vineyard Commission's expanding legal budget was broached at the Edgartown select board meeting Monday, as town officials weighed the financial impacts of the commission's recent flurry of legal challenges.

Aquinnah select board member Gary Haley, who was cited and fined by the state ethics commission for violating the state conflict of interest law, has appealed the ruling in Suffolk County Superior Court.