Deer season begins today, Oct. 7 and continues through Dec. 31. Hunting is permitted Monday through Saturday, a half hour before sunrise to a half hour after sunset.

Claudia Taylor’s voice echoed throughout the Martha’s Vineyard Museum on Friday for her first public reading as the Island’s new poet laureate.

The turtle, discovered by a Chappaquiddick homeowner on Sept. 26, was heavily decomposed, but could have died by a ship strike.

A plan to redevelop a stretch of the Vineyard Haven waterfront took a step forward earlier this month when the Vineyard Lands for Our Community purchased the first of five parcels needed for its ambitious proposal. 

Aquinnah police are investigating vandalism on several private properties and along Moshup Trail. 

The Martha’s Vineyard Boys & Girls Club will be able to deepen its commitment to providing members with meals cooked on site with fresh ingredients thanks to the generosity of Jerry and Alice Jacobs.

The Martha’s Vineyard Bodhi Path Buddhist Center celebrated its 25th anniversary with the consecration of a new stupa last week.

Forty Brazilian Catholics from the St. Augustine Church in Vineyard Haven traveled to Washington, D.C. last weekend for a celebration of Nossa Senhora Conceição Aparecida, the patron saint of Brazil.

When the bell rings at 7:30 a.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, students stuff their cell phones, earbuds and smart watches into small gray pouches, sealing them with a magnetic lock.

Halifax fisherman Richard Mann was aiming for a derby fish, but hooked a 6-foot tarpon Sunday.