Starting a new business on Martha’s Vineyard takes courage during the best of times. But even in the face of the pandemic, optimistic risk-takers have opened shops, galleries, restaurants and services.

Both of the longtime Martha’s Vineyard representatives on the Steamship Authority Port Council announced Tuesday morning they will not seek reappointment for another term.

A dilapidated house in West Tisbury is now collapsing and poses a danger to the public and potentially to the environment as well, building inspector Joseph K. Tierney, Jr., told selectmen Wednesday.

With nine office-seekers and nine seats, the race for the MVC may have seemed unsuspenseful to those unfamiliar with the intricate makeup of the powerful regional planning agency.

UnExquisite Corpse blended a dance, music and theatre in Halloween weekend performances held outside the Martha’s Vineyard Museum.

Whippoorwill Farm is making a comeback, under a mixture of new and old management.

The health and economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are causing increased demand for supplemental food on Martha’s Vineyard, according to a report from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Rural Health Scholars program.

Neither global pandemic nor autumn storm could keep the organizers and musicians of LadyFest from their annual mission: to help Island victims of domestic violence.

The future of food trucks in West Tisbury should be decided by voters, town officials said Wednesday, after planning board members requested that selectmen allow the mobile eateries.

Tisbury selectmen said this week they have made contact with the owner of the Edu Comp building in downtown Vineyard Haven, which has been floated.