Autumn is the season for finding species that stray outside of their normal ranges.

Galls are insect-induced swellings of vascular plants caused when an insect injects an egg into a plant.

While enjoying all weather here on the Vineyard, I continue to follow the tract of Hurricane Ian towards Florida's west coast.

The two newest additions to the Steamship Authority fleet will be named M/V Aquinnah and M/V Monomoy, following a unanimous vote by the boat line board of governors.

With music, speeches, flowers and resounding cheers, the Island community celebrated English language arts teacher Danielle (Dani) Charbonneau, who has just been named the Massachusetts Teacher of the Year.

Island Theatre Workshop's executive director Kevin Ryan has spent the better part of a decade trying to put up Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella. It premieres on Wednesday, Sept. 28 at the performing arts center.

Chilmark voters gathered at the community center Monday evening for a special town meeting agreed to spend $44,000 to renovate the Menemsha commercial dock.


The Oak Bluffs select board Tuesday voted to appoint Donovan McElligatt, former Mashpee shellfish warden, to the position of Oak Bluffs shellfish constable.

The boys in the trenches led the Vineyard high school football team to a shutout victory in their home opener against Monomoy Friday night as the Vineyarders defeated the Sharks 21-0.

The celebrated 1970s Island trio TCD will play again Oct. 6 at Grange Hall, when the Martha’s Vineyard Community Foundation presents original band member Charlie Esposito with its 39th annual Creative Living Award.