United Methodist Church Bishop Peggy Johnson came to the Island Monday to meet with the United Methodist Church of Martha's Vineyard, just weeks after the international church conference voted to drop church language that banned same sex marriage and openly gay clergy.

The Steamship Authority Tuesday said it is dropping the Sankaty's three daily weekday round trips on the Vineyard route amid a shortage of qualified crew members.

Tisbury voters moved briskly through their annual and special town meeting warrants Tuesday night, approving all 40 articles including changes to the zoning bylaw and the town's $39,765,401 operating budget.

Voters will consider a zoning bylaw that puts limits on trade-related activities in residential districts when Tisbury town meeting opens on May 28.

Galleries in Edgartown are opening their doors this month, with one of the town’s art mainstays now located at a new address.

Like a lead singer with two harmony vocalists, Fan Ogilvie took center stage at the Featherstone Center for the Arts for a three-way reading from her newly-published memoir Dust is the Only Secret: Assent to Life.

The aim of the study is to assess how much human activity can take place without irreversible damage to the quality of life Islanders want.

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission voted 10-1 on Thursday to allow Amelia Hambrecht to move the whaling-era Caleb Prouty house from downtown Vineyard Haven to her property on Lagoon Pond Road.

When Covid-19 restrictions forced Island schools to go dark in early 2020, thousands of video screens lit up as teachers took their lessons online and isolated children reached out to each other through cell phones and social media. Educators are still dealing with the aftermath.

John Stevens will head Edgartown School on an interim basis, with the school’s longtime guidance counselor Deborah DeBettencourt becoming assistant principal.