The 57th annual Martha's Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby starts tomorrow morning. For some of the Island's anglers, it can't start fast enough. Fishermen started talking about...

Taygeta was one of more than 60 boats participating in last Sunday's 25th annual George Moffett Memorial sailboat race. Named after one of the seven stars in the small star cluster Pleiades,...

Military veterans and Island police, firemen and emergency medical technicians will take time out in the days ahead to remember the events of Sept. 11, 2001. This Sunday the services begin with the...

Last Friday, Edgartown district court clerk magistrate Thomas Teller had to hand pink slips to two of his most loyal employees. The decision to lay off two experienced employees comes as the...

Heavy rains last Thursday night ended the Island's long stretch of rainless weather, and even more precipitation arrived in the form of showers yesterday.Last Friday morning, the Vineyard...

Manning the front lines of the Island economy, Vineyard harbor masters often see business trends before merchants do. As summer draws to an end, four of the five Island harbor masters told the...

Construction crews are almost done erecting a large research tower nearly two miles south of the Vineyard.For weeks, a well-lighted barge and tugboat have been involved in a large-scale project due...

The spirit and the first candle of the Grand Illumination was carried by a 32-year-old sufferer of Huntington's Disease. With her father, Walter, and her niece, Kyla McCartney, nearby, Tammy Frye...

A month ago, Island farmers were complaining that it was dry. Now, halfway through August, it is even drier - so much so that Vineyarders are looking for new superlatives to describe the arid...

A live baby great white shark was brought into Menemsha harbor by a local fishing boat Tuesday morning. And though the fish was only five feet in length, the fact that it was a great white caused...