Islanders need to get ready now for the effects of global climate change, Oak Bluffs conservation agent Liz Durkee told an attentive audience at the town library Saturday afternoon. “The seas are going to rise. We are an Island community,” Ms. Durkee said.

Recent catastrophic wildfires in California have sown concern on Martha’s Vineyard, where there is concern the 5,000-acre Manuel F. Correllus State Forest is becoming a tinder box.

The Tisbury selectmen, school committee and school building committee chose Boston-based Tappé Architects to remodel and modernize the town elementary school.

Tisbury could reap hundreds of thousands of dollars a year from short-term rental property registrations that became mandatory when the state passed its short-term rental tax last year.

After more than two years and dozens of different designs, Steamship Authority governors voted Tuesday to develop a single-story ticket building at the Woods Hole terminal.

A new, single-story design for the Woods Hole ticket building is high on the agenda when Steamship Authority governors meet Tuesday morning in Falmouth. The meeting begins at 10 a.m.

West Tisbury’s single tax rate is going down in 2020, from $6.18 to $6.07, selectmen learned on Wednesday.

The Martha’s Vineyard Airport is running well in the black as the busiest months of the year come to a close, treasurer Richard Knabel reported.

The Federated Church of Martha's Vineyard has called a new minister, Richard DenUyl, Jr., who preached his first sermon on All Saints Day, Nov. 2.

It cost the town of Tisbury more than $11,000 to raise the harbor patrol boat that sank at its Owen Park berth last month.