Longtime Martha's Vineyard Commission member Jim Vercruysse reflected on new challenges facing the commission, after deciding not to run this year.

Service and self sacrifice have been a hallmark of the Vineyard for centuries, across the spectrum of race, gender and income.

In the late 1980s, as a graduate student at Harvard Kennedy School, I conducted the first housing buildout study for the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.

I liked turning 90 a year and a half ago. I was given a party overlooking Chilmark Pond by friend Mary Jane Pease.

The Gay Head 10K committee would like to thank everyone who helped to make the ninth annual Gay Head 10K, a Race for the Light, another success.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $372,260 for the business week ending on Friday, Nov. 4, 2022.

Bucking a statewide trend, the Vineyard public school system continues to grow, with 2,253 students enrolled across the Island on Oct. 1 compared to 2,191 a year earlier.

With the presentation of the focus group findings at its Nov. 2 meeting, the West Tisbury building committee now knows what the future of Howes House might, could and should look like.

I don't think we've reached the tipping point of conserving our Island land; we've exceeded the tenable tipping point of building Martha's Vineyard out.

From the Nov. 15, 1946 edition of the Gazette: