Thousands of people logged onto the Steamship Authority website hours before dawn Tuesday, breaking records on the opening day of summer ferry reservations.

The select board threw a monkey wrench into the latest effort to jump start a feasibility study for a new high school, declining to sign a joint letter to the Massachusetts School Building Authority.

New cases of Covid-19 are on the decline following a surge that saw record case counts, boards of health reported Monday. Free distribution of at-home test kits will continue through the week

Amid ongoing talks about the distribution of some $3 million from the American Rescue Plan Act, the Dukes County Commission pushed back this week against inquiries from the county advisory board over its own jurisdiction in the process.

Cases of Covid-19 on the Island continued to spike with 457 confirmed cases for the week ending Jan. 15, Island boards of health reported, as free test kit distribution continues this week.

Steamship Authority governors welcomed a new member Tuesday and approved another expenditure for the Woods Hole Terminal reconstruction project.

Regional high school juniors Eloise and Adrienne Christy have one major thing in common (besides being identical twins): school records.

The much-debated article to create a Martha’s Vineyard Housing Bank will go on the annual town meeting warrant Oak Bluffs, after a unanimous vote by the select board Tuesday night.

If climate change put Martha’s Vineyard under a magnifying glass, tiny Chappaquiddick is under a microscope. Work has begun on an emergency response plan.

Facing a rush of demand on the Island for at-home Covid-19 testing, Island Health Care has ordered 28,350 more rapid test kits as cases of the virus hit record numbers on Martha’s Vineyard.