The multi-million dollar project to raise the wharf finished up early this month. “Everything’s good, everything’s been running on schedule, no problem . . . I’m pleased,” Steve Ewing, the chairman of the Memorial Wharf restoration committee, told the Gazette by phone.

Longtime West Tisbury police officer Bradley Cortez has been promoted to the rank of sergeant, following the town select board’s approval of his appointment last week.

At a special meeting Tuesday afternoon, members of the Dukes County Commission discussed the next steps in filling the open position of county treasurer.

The West Tisbury Library’s revamped annual book sale opened Sunday, with book enthusiasts mulling through hundreds of donated books collected on the library’s back porch.

More than 250 people participated in the fifth annual Fluke For Luke fishing tournament, an event founded in memory of Luke Gurney, a pillar of the Vineyard fishing community who died six years ago.

Dr. Paul Goldstein is an expert on moths and butterflies. He began his formal study of Vineyard lepidoptera at Felix Neck in 1986.

Crowds flocked to Vineyard Haven’s Main Street Friday evening for the return of the Tisbury Street Fair, a perennial summer tradition.

At the opening night of the Martha's Vineyard Author Series, Sen. Raphael Warnock spoke to a sold-out crowd about faith, politics and his new memoir A Way Out of No Way.

At its first meeting the committee to review the housing bank legislation reviewed its responsibilities and named a chairman.

Tonight’s gibbous moon begins its trek through the southern most zodiac constellations: Libra, Scorpius and Sagittarius.

Tonight the moon is in the nondescript constellation Libra. The stars in the constellation are faint and scattered. Yet in mythology, Libra is the sign of scales, used often in the story of law and balance. It is referred to as the orderly, equal scale.

Tomorrow night, the moon begins its journey through the constellation Scorpius, marked by a bright red star, called Antares.