A powerful winter storm lashed the Vineyard Thursday with rain, sleet, high winds and coastal flooding. By Friday morning ferry service was running again but on a trip-by-trip basis.

Not up, not down and no clear road signs for the future. As the calendar year draws to a close, that’s the main story of the Island real estate market.

Marking a first in the long history of the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest, a charitable friends group has formed for the 5,000-acre forest.

Merger talks are now under way between the nonprofit program that provides free tennis instruction for Island children and the YMCA.

More transparency, accountability, responsiveness: these are chief concerns from a recent survey about the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.

Four Islanders who are Vietnam War veterans spoke frankly and movingly in the Gazette newsroom last week about their experiences in an unpopular war that divided the country.

Special town meetings in Edgartown and Oak Bluffs Tuesday night will have a common theme: promoting more affordable housing and grappling with the legal sale of recreational marijuana.

Pay raises for town workers, a long-planned affordable housing project and a temporary moratorium on recreational marijuana sales are all issues for Edgartown voters to consider when they convene for a special town meeting Tuesday night.

On Saturday night, the Barn Raisers’ Ball will mark the 24th anniversary of the year the Vineyard rallied to raise an old frame for a new barn. This year the ball will include a donation jar.

Assistant district attorney Laura Marshard violated the rules when she met with a witness without having his attorney present, a Board of Bar Overseers panel said.