The critical need for affordable housing on Martha’s Vineyard is by now beyond dispute. But how to solve this pressing problem needs all the careful consideration and collective good faith the Island can muster.

Early review has begun on a plan by the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital to build a large new senior living and nursing home facility in Edgartown.

On Dec. 31, Jim Reynolds will retire after a legal career of 45 years, all of it taking place on the Vineyard, a place he had never even visited until he came for an interview.

This time of the year / Whispers in Santa’s ear / Elicit Ho, Ho, Hos / Smiles of children / Laughter of folklore.

It’s an uncharacteristically noisy holiday season on Circuit avenue, but the downtown buzz in Oak Bluffs isn’t from tourists and shoppers. Instead it comes from chain saws and leaf blowers.

More than 100 people with a wide range of backgrounds atended an online meeting as the Island formally kicked off its climate action plan.

It just breaks my heart when I hear of yet another case of a broken promise relevant to our Island community housing issue.

n 1975, my grandfather, Roger DeFeo, went to Martha’s Vineyard with his older brother Lawrence to find an ideal place to build family homes.

I am writing in support of Navigator Homes of Martha’s Vineyard as proposed on land in Edgartown.

I would like to give a shoutout to Edgartown’s highway superintendent, Allan Debettencourt, and his employees.