It’s an uncharacteristically noisy holiday season on Circuit avenue, but the downtown buzz in Oak Bluffs isn’t from tourists and shoppers. Instead it comes from chain saws and leaf blowers.

More than 100 people with a wide range of backgrounds atended an online meeting as the Island formally kicked off its climate action plan.

Live music will continue at Offshore Ale Co. after the Oak Bluffs select board approved a new entertainment license for the business Tuesday, over concerns raised by neighbors.

Echoing the concerns of Edgartown and West Tisbury, the Oak Bluffs select board delayed action this week on a draft annual town meeting article to create a Martha’s Vineyard housing bank.

Steamship Authority governors put a period on the year 2021 at their monthly meeting Monday, hearing financial reports, electing new officers for 2022 and addressing transfer bridge safety following incidents involving a failed cable in recent weeks.

A draft regulation that would ban artificial turf in Oak Bluffs is set for discussion by the town board of health Tuesday, adding another new wrinkle to ongoing debate around a plan by the high school to overhaul its athletic fields using turf.

Main street was alive with shoppers, lights and snowmakers Thursday night, at the town’s first Winter Wonderland of the season.

The recent surge in Covid-19 cases on the Island has included an increase in hospitalizations, even as appointments for booster vaccine shots have been hard to come by.

Martha’s Vineyard Chamber of Commerce executive director Nancy Gardella announced her resignation Tuesday after 15 years heading the organization. Ms. Gardella will leave her post at the end of the year, an announcement said.

Mariam Raqib does not take the power of a tree for granted. When she was a child growing up in Afghanistan, she remembers a country of great landscapes, trees and bushes.