Longtime Oak Bluffs select board member Gail Barmakian is not seeking reelection after 15 years on the board, instead opting to run for the town clerk position. 

A maritime recruitment firm with operations around the world is poised to conduct the search for a new Steamship Authority general manager.

The select board voted at its Feb. 25 meeting to approve the transfer of the store’s liquor license, inventory and stock to Sumanbhai Patel’s Dukes County Market, Inc.

In a trio of bills filed earlier this year, State Rep. Thomas Moakley requested more staff for the Edgartown District Court, a year-long study into the staffing levels and the condition of the 1858 courthouse, and better access to the state’s housing court for the Vineyard and Nantucket. 

On Sunday, officials confirmed that the turbine at the southernmost end of the Vineyard Wind lease off Martha’s Vineyard was apparently hit by lightning late last week, damaging the already broken blade. 

The Martha’s Vineyard Cultural Council recently awarded more than $60,000 in grants to three dozen Island arts nonprofits.

The future of the Jewish Cultural Festival remains in limbo after the West Tisbury select board this week declined to allow more people at the event. 

Floyd Norton was soft spoken, exceedingly polite and never once did I hear him interrupt another person while they were speaking. That’s why it was so surprising when he told a risqué joke.

When my kids were at the Chilmark School I was readily in the, so-called, loop when it came to the highs and lows of their school days.

The sun has been shining, the sky is blue, and the temperature is above 30 degrees. Things are getting better.