The struggling U.S. economy and a strong euro are pushing summer rental bookings ahead of a strong 2007 season. While home rentals are even or slightly ahead of last year, hotels report...

The Aquinnah Public Library sports a powerful literary and learning engine inside its homespun, 19th century exterior. The former little red schoolhouse, built in 1827 on State Road just past...

Alternative energy looms large on the warrant for the May 13 Aquinnah annual town meeting. The 31-warrant article, unveiled by Aquinnah selectmen at their meeting this week, is dominated...

Several years of effort to restore the dwindling Island bay scallop population finally paid off this year; scallop landings Islandwide increased 23 per cent over the previous year....

Voters will have three strong-minded candidates to pick from in Aquinnah in a race for selectman to be decided May 14 in the annual town elections. First-term incumbent and current...

West Tisbury selectmen welcomed a new board member and settled into new roles this week. Shortly after Richard Knabel was welcomed to his seat following victory over Glenn Hearn in the...

Osprey have been around since well before man showed up, but the graceful raptors created a shiny new moment for two boys last Sunday. “Look, they’re coming in to land,”...

Aquinnah selectmen this week raced to prepare language for a new bylaw aimed at regulating wind turbines that is due for review by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission early next month and for...

Sarah Mello Trudel of Oak Bluffs has been named superintendent of the Chappaquiddick properties of The Trustees of Reservations.Mrs. Trudel will succeed David F. Belcher, who leaves the job after 19...

Ocean Eversley, as her name suggests, has been able to produce profound change in her personal landscape, using deep and powerful personal resources. “I felt as if I were decaying,...