With Covid cases dropping sharply on the Island, health officials are poised to reconsider the school mask mandate that has been in place for most of the past two years.

Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School officials said the school has been recommended for acceptance into the Massachusetts School Building Authority’s highly competitive grant program.

After two seasons of disruption caused by Covid-19, annual town meetings are beginning to return to their normal spring schedule in 2022.

Black and Wampanoag peoplewere among the earliest seasonal residents of the Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meeting Association, according to research by association president Andrew Patch.

With the end of the state-imposed school mask mandate less than two weeks away, Island school committee members split Thursday on whether or not to immediately drop the mandates.

The trees of West Tisbury now have their own advisory group.

Well ahead of schedule, highway work on Beach Road in Vineyard Haven is expected to finish in the fall of 2022.

Steamship Authority governors moved briskly Tuesday through an agenda that included a report on the over-budget Woods Hole terminal reconstruction.

Island women escaping homelessness have a powerful new ally in the Cottagers, Inc., the all-female philanthropic group based in Oak Bluffs.

New legislation introduced this week would require the Steamship Authority to add a chief operating officer to the senior ranks of management.