Editor’s Note: Curtis Jones died June 22 at the age of 97. The following profile of him was published in the Gazette in November 2005.Six months after Lieut. Curtis Jones watched a one-hour...

“You know, I used to live there,” I told my in-laws after they mentioned hoping to visit Martha’s Vineyard during a New England vacation.So many memories washed over me. Stopping to...

Wyc and Corinne Grousbeck are having a few friends to their Edgartown Great Pond home this month to talk shop.Boston Celtics coaching legend Arnold (Red) Auerbach and his former offensive star K.C....

Changes Could Threaten Plan for Housing, MVC Is Warned By MANDY LOCKE As the Martha's Vineyard Commission (MVC) concluded its review of a 60-unit affordable rental development in Edgartown,...

The days of dump picking, finding a treasure in another man's trash, drew to a close on the Island this week. Until yesterday the Chilmark landfill was the last active, unlined landfill in the...

Tips Fail to Lead Police to Baby's Mother By MANDY LOCKE One week after a baby was abandoned on the steps of St. Augustine's Church in Vineyard Haven, police have still not found the infant's...

Doctors Say Abandoned Baby Will Recover; Police Probe on By MANDY LOCKE A newborn baby boy, abandoned on the stoop of St. Augustine's Church early Tuesday morning, turned the corner yesterday...

Now that the Island Health Plan has received a green light from officials on Beacon Hill, leaders of this grassroots affordable insurance program must turn their attention home - enlisting doctors...

It's like gardening, William Wilcox and Paul Bagnall explain, but with a twist. All the planting is done underwater.Anxious to see eelgrass beds thrive in Vineyard waters again, staff members...

Office Building Eyed for State Road By MANDY LOCKE A 10,000-square-foot office building proposed for a congested stretch of State Road in Tisbury has shaken neighbors still trying to carve out...