Jack O'Callaghan and Choey Ray were together for eight months in 1968, into 1969, in Thailand during the Viet Nam war. But when deployment orders came down they lost touch for nearly half a century.

A gripping documentary about the heroin epidemic on Cape Cod focuses attention on the power of addiction and the toll it takes on addicts, their families and their communities.

Edgartown selectmen voted to impose a permanent restraint order for a dog involved in an incident outside a home in December.

Though the Louisiana shipyard building the new ferry says it will be more than five weeks late in delivering the vessel, Steamship Authority managers remain hopeful the ferry will be delivered earlier, general manager Wayne Lamson said this week.

Oak Bluffs selectmen appointed Allyson Malik as the new town library director at their Tuesday meeting.

A long-pending bill to reform the Massachusetts Public Records Law is back on track to become reality after clearing the state senate last week. The bill now goes to conference committee.

Walter Robinson, the editor who led the Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, spoke before a sold-out crowd at the Vineyard Gazette this week.

Randall Jette has progressed from a Martha's Vineyard high school quarterback to a well respected Division 1 defensive player. And now he is a prospect for the National Football League draft.

Deborah Potter will resign effective next month, airport leaders announced Thursday. Mrs. Potter has been heading operations at the airport since August, when former manager Sean Flynn left his post.

Oak Bluffs police arrested a Lakeville man at the arena Saturday on charges of trespassing and possession of a loaded firearm while intoxicated.