With five towns now calling for further review, the plan to create an Islandwide housing bank is officially on hold. West Tisbury voters decided Tuesday night to reconsider an earlier vote to approve the bank.

Four new doctors recently signed on at the hospital to work in the primary care department full time. The patient waiting list, which numbered close to 500 about a year ago, is gone.

Island naturalist Gus Ben David stopped by the Gazette Wednesday morning with a strigine guest in tow: a five-and-a-half-week-old great horned owl.

West Tisbury voters gather for town meetings tonight to decide their part in two key regional issues: the housing bank proposal and funding for a plan to rebuild the high school track. The meetings begin at 7 p.m. in the school gymnasium.

The beginning of the 40th Vineyard Little League season included a parade down Circuit avenue, team introductions, the national anthem and busy baseball diamonds all over the Island.

Regional high school students spoke this week by video conference to young people in Iraq, Nigeria, Sweden and Afghanistan.

West Tisbury voters will convene at town meeting Tuesday to decide their part in two key regional issues.

The Vineyard Sinfonietta celebrates its longest serving member on Sunday with a concert in her honor.

Police chiefs in the three down-Island towns had varying responses to the federal court ruling.

Tisbury voters elected Jeff Kristal over Seth Gambino as their new selectman and ousted a sitting assessor at the annual town election Tuesday.