Black and Wampanoag peoplewere among the earliest seasonal residents of the Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meeting Association, according to research by association president Andrew Patch.

Two grants totaling $2.6 million dollars will benefit low and moderate-income homeowners and parents on the Island through the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The vaccination bus returns on March 13 with free vaccine and booster shots.

With two top performances, the regional high school indoor track and field teams made their mark at the MIAA Division Five Championship meet Friday night.

At the meet, Zach Utz won the boys mile, and the Martha’s Vineyard boys 4x800 meter relay landed a first place finish. Nearly all the athletes from both the boys and girls teams reached new personal bests at the meet, assistant coach Donald Brown told the Gazette.

“I’m really happy with how it went,” he said.

First constructed as a school in 1938 and expanded in the 1960s to accommodate the demands of democracy, the Oak Bluffs town hall begins its third life Tuesday when it reopens to the public.

The Martha’s Vineyard boys high school basketball team punched their ticket to the playoffs Saturday with a gutsy 65-58 victory over rival Nantucket.

With the end of the state-imposed school mask mandate less than two weeks away, Island school committee members split Thursday on whether or not to immediately drop the mandates.

Feb. 24 is the deadline to file papers in order to run for office in Edgartown, Oak Bluffs or West Tisbury.

It is an unusual event for those who love astronomy. We have no visible evening planets. Jupiter is so low in the southwestern sky after sunset as to be unobservable. Saturn disappeared late last month and is now hidden in the sun’s glare.

For so long we had Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Mercury and especially Venus hanging in our western sky. Now they are gone. All the action has shifted and will continue to shift to our morning sky.

The West Tisbury select board named a slew of members of the energy committee and climate advisory committee as special municipal employees.