The regional high school district committee took a hard look at a draft budget for fiscal year 2020 at its regular meeting Monday night, weighing options to keep the increase to a minimum.

Intoxicated drivers, hunting complaints and a theft kept Island police busy over the weekend. In Edgartown, officers served a community meal.

A 46-year-old Rhode Island man took a buckshot pellet in the ankle on the opening day of shotgun season for deer, state environmental police confirmed.

The wooden steeple and bell were removed from the Tisbury town hall on Saturday.

More than 100 Islanders took the stage of the Old Whaling Church before an appreciative audience for the annual Island Community Chorus concert.

A wide-ranging discussion at a packed West Tisbury selectmen’s meeting touched on the history of conservation restrictions that limit use of the Agricultural Hall.

As models for elderly care undergo rapid change both around the country and on Martha’s Vineyard, the Island’s only nursing home is facing challenges.

From outside, it looked like they were coming for a dinner party — a small group of people arriving in the early evening, hands in pockets as they stepped onto the narrow porch of an Oak Bluffs cottage.

West Tisbury selectmen held a hearing on tax rates for 2019 and welcomed a new police officer last week.

The question of natural grass versus artificial turf dominated public comment at a meeting called last week to air ongoing plans to overhaul the athletic fields at the regional high school.