The Steamship Authority needs to change its management culture or face more potentially dangerous disruptions in service, the leader of a five-month study of boat line operations said Monday.

A independent review of the SSA describes an organization so focused on saving money and reacting to emergencies that it has failed to follow basic business practices.

The Carnegie, Edgartown’s former public library on North Water street, has opened a short-term gallery show with new works by well-known Island artists including Allen Whiting, Jeanne Staples and Margot Datz.

On Thursday, more than 450 people sat down together in the West Tisbury School gymnasium for a farm-to-table meal and some live music from a school alumnus.

After some 400 people signed a petition protesting the design for a new ticket building in Woods Hole, the SSA asked architects to try again.

The Chilmark Community Center was filled with music Friday for the Martha’s Vineyard Piano Quartet’s sixth annual Thanksgiving concert.

It’s been a productive year for Martha’s Vineyard farmers and they’re sharing the harvest. Island Grown Gleaning is having a record year.

Choose your size, shape, and variety; then cut your own Christmas tree at L & W Tree Farm.



Jenny Allen hosted the first of her off-season Jenny’s Drama Salons at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse Tuesday night.

Women onstage at the Martha's Vineyard Playhouse last weekend were not reading or reciting the poems from Stag’s Leap, they were inhabiting them.