Edgartown selectmen Monday established a commercial oyster season beginning Dec. 1 for Sengekontacket Pond, the welcome consequence of an oyster propagation project that proved wildly successful.
Patricia Bergeron and the Portuguese American Club accepted this year’s Spirit of the Vineyard award Sunday in a ceremony marked with laughter, love and a few tears.
Two months after the Martha’s Vineyard Airport Commission placed airport manager Sean Flynn on paid administrative leave there is no outcome regarding his employment, according to the commission chairman.
As waters off the Vineyard begin to attract strong interest among wind energy developers, legislation now before Massachusetts lawmakers would spur significant changes in the way local consumers buy power from renewable energy sources.
Oak Bluffs voters will decide whether to authorize additional spending on the Niantic Park reconstruction project and repairs for the North Bluff sea wall at a special town meeting next Tuesday.
Forced indoors by a northeast storm that lashed the Island, the annual Veterans Day ceremony included the emotional reunion of three Navy shipmates who had served together in the Viet Nam War.
Selectmen this week tried to broker a compromise solution in a heated dispute among town shellfishermen over the closing of Sengekontacket Pond to bay scalloping on the Oak Bluffs side.
New statistics from the state, as well as from local doctors and police, leave little doubt that the scale of heroin and prescription narcotic abuse on Martha’s Vineyard is on the rise.
When the call to duty came, Gay Head sent 23 of its sons to World War I, a larger percentage of its population than any other town in New England. All able-bodied men volunteered to serve.
Although a number of questions went unanswered, Edgartown selectmen this week authorized the town affordable housing trust to buy and resell a home on Metcalf Drive. It marks the first resale in Edgartown of a property originally designated as affordable housing.
