Stop & Shop employees were back at work in Edgartown Monday morning as an 11-day strike came to an end. The Vineyard Haven store remained closed, although a spokesman for the grocery chain said... more

In a first for Martha’s Vineyard and Massachusetts, a black-whiskered vireo was spotted near the Edgartown Golf Club on Sunday. The rare appearance of the small bird that winters in South... more

Vineyard poet Judith Neeld died at the age of 90 on April 18. In her career, she published five books of poetry, was awarded the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America, and edited... more

Everett Poole, the 88-year-old straight-talking Chilmark moderator who’s nearly as storied as the institution of the New England town meeting itself, visited the Gazette last week to tell tales... more

Conservationists of all ages fanned out around shorelines up-Island and down Saturday for the Vineyard Conservation Society’s 27th annual beach cleanup. On a blustery, misty day, volunteers... more

Painter Donna Straw has a new muse. The metallic colors and sharp lines of structures in her past work are out, replaced with muted grays and the organic movement of nature. She calls it the latest... more

The former chief executive officer of the Martha’s Vineyard hospital has left a post he took at a community hospital in Alaska a little over a year ago. Joe Woodin announced his resignation as... more

At the Vineyard Conservation Society annual beach cleanup on Saturday, likely debris collections will include an assortment of bottles, cans, cigarettes, and styrofoam. In 1997 though, Brendan O... more

I took advantage of this past Monday’s weather. It was my last opportunity to make bread before the onslaught of full-on gardening. Early that morning right before the thunder and lightning... more

Indigo buntings often show up in the spring when southerly winds carry them beyond their breeding grounds. These bright bluebirds do not nest here every year; why this is so is unexplained, since... more