Lauren and Jim Steiner of Oak Bluffs welcomed Avery Brenda Steiner 38 seconds after midnight on Sunday. Avery is the first baby of the New Year on the Cape and possibly the entire state. Born at the...

Time for the resolutions. Cut back on the clam chowder, walk every single one of the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank trails, read every book by a Vineyard author in the library, the list goes on....

Tisbury selectmen this week advocated for ornamental pear trees on a village lane, heard an update on the Beach Road improvement project and said they would formally object to the recent round of...

With an $11.5 million draft budget for the coming fiscal year on the table for discussion this week, up-Island school committee members lightly sparred over cost allocation, an ongoing issue in the...

Many of the shoppers in downtown Vineyard Haven on Sunday sported the same bags. They hadn’t all been to the same shop, but had all stopped by the same booth. Tucked under the eaves of the...

After 20 years in downtown Vineyard Haven, Midnight Farm will close its doors for good on Dec. 31. The upscale boutique owned by Tamara Weiss opened in 1996, steps away from Main street on Cromwell...

Emma Young’s precisely detailed poetry is born from broad feelings. Her poems come from the specific softness of summer dusk, from the heartbreaking tenderness of a home town, from the porous...

Handel’s Messiah has risen again on the Island and will be performed for the first time in over a decade on Saturday, Dec. 17 at 8 p.m. in the Old Whaling Church.Organized by the Grace...

There were 29 shovels on hand at a groundbreaking Tuesday at Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs. The day was cold and the ground hard but members of the Featherstone community — the...

Tisbury and West Tisbury have both approved their tax rates for the year. West Tisbury selectmen recently approved a single tax rate of $5.97 a slight decrease from last year’s rate of $6.06...