At 5 a.m. on a recent morning, Noah Mayrand started up his boat and set-out from West Chop looking for false albacore.

Part of my summer ritual for the last 30 years is a final bike ride, coasting down the hill from our Oak Bluffs cottage.

It is terrible how the SSA board including our board member from Martha’s Vineyard, have let us collectively down.

The rate increase that is coming on the Steamship Authority is due to three very clear problems that have existed for a long time.

The night skies this week included a rare phenomena. Northern Lights, usually associated with the arctic and Northern New England observable sites were visible on the Cape and Islands. Photographers posted pictures on social media and from Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.

One particular sighting took place last Sunday night. There was a post of Northern Lights being seen from Aquinnah. Another sighting was seen from Inkwell Beach in Oak Bluffs on the same night. We wandered late at night along East Chop Drive trying to get a good view.

On the eve of a national election in the United States that will certainly feature angry conflicting stories of voting fraud, an extra relevance attaches to Represent, the new collaboration by Michael Eric Dyson and Marc Favreau.

A vexed subject in Vineyard history came up last week with the difficulty in deciding whether a particular hillside in the East Chop region was a park, a mysteriously named “plaza,” or just ordinary private property.

Kib Bramhall is a member of a rarefied fraternity, he embodies the Vineyard fishing culture he embraced when he arrived on the Island at age 12 in 1945.

A creature that is hundreds of millions years old will make the rounds at Union Chapel this weekend for the annual Fossil Day event.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $793,737.84 for the business week ending on Friday, Oct. 4, 2024.