Candidates ranging from aviators to landscapers have thrown their hats into the ring to vie for three seats on the Martha’s Vineyard Airport Commission.

With the regional high school dropout rate on the rise, principal Sara Dingledy sought to explain the numbers to the district school committee this week.

The Federated Church in Edgartown won a legal victory this week in a knotty case over its ownership of the South Water street parsonage that was willed to the church more than 60 years ago.

Edgartown selectmen voted Tuesday to refer the Vineyard Transit Authority’s redesigned bus terminal at Church street to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.

A crowd of Chappaquiddick residents filled every seat of the Ted B. Morgan meeting room Monday to protest rate hikes.

The boys track team continued its dominance on Sunday by winning the Cape and Islands league championship. The girls squad placed second.

The venerable saltwater fishing contest entering its 75th year, will eliminate striped bass from the competition this fall.

The Vineyard Conservation Society is calling for the voluntary elimination of polystyrene Islandwide. VCS is asking all six Island towns to vote on a nonbinding referendum this spring.

Tisbury town officials erred twice when they posted an agenda for selectmen to meet in Boston Jan. 25.

Universal Love is the new story collection by Alexander Weinstein, the director of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing.