A new hotel is proposed for Oak Bluffs in the spot where the Ocean View restaurant welcomed generations of Islanders for dinner. And a fun Island to-do list to help you through school vacation.

Alex Morrison's win over seven-term incumbent select board member Michael Donaroma heralds the arrival of a younger generation in town politics.

The season gets off to a galloping start on Saturday with the opening of the Flying Horses Carousel in Oak Bluffs.

Robert V. Hammett of Oak Bluffs and Deborah Hammett are pleased to announce the marriage of their daughter Emily to Chase Stormer.

At farms around the Island, lambs are one of the many spring harbingers here that include the chorus of pinkletinks from the swamps and wetlands, and majestic osprey circling overhead as they build their nests.

Here on the Vineyard, the Island celebrates its 33rd Earth Day with a host of activities on Saturday, April 19, including a beach clean-up and an after-party at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum.

Twenty-five years ago, there we stood, the four of us, up in the stands at the Fleet Center in Boston: Mike McLaughlin, George Gamble, Tom Mayhew and I.

Editors, Vineyard Gazette;

Wednesday, April 16 marks the 62nd anniversary of the publication of Martin Luther King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail.

Given the current divisions in America, this patriotic letter takes on particular significance. I would urge everyone to read or re-read this letter.

This whole thought came from a conversation I had with one of my sons in law when we were discussing the world and technology.

The following tribute to Charlie Blair was read at the Edgartown annual town meeting on April 8.