In the Greek fishing village of Nea Kios, where I traveled recently, there is a Psarotaverna, a fish tavern, that reminded me of home on the Vineyard.

While the average payment in West Tisbury would have increased around eight per cent on each bill if spread across all four quarters, residents had to contend with the entire year’s increase in just the final bill.

Sheet metal licensure is generally necessary for anyone who wants to move air in the state of Massachusetts, from the smallest bath fan to the largest heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system.

Chilmark and West Tisbury renewed joint funding talks over for the Howes House renovation at a joint select board meeting this week.

State legislators and farm advocates gathered at the second annual meeting of the Martha’s Vineyard Farm Bureau Monday to voice their agricultural concerns and hear about current farm-focused initiatives at the statehouse.

Several municipal heating, ventilation and air conditioning projects on the Island that have ballooned in price recently, driven up as towns look to replace aging equipment but have no on-Island specialists to carry out such large jobs.

Six generations have passed since the first volume of the Eldridge Tide and Pilot Book, and the Eldridge family is still at the helm, currently working on the 150th edition.

A program incentivizing West Tisbury residents to build affordable housing on their property will not appear before voters at the upcoming town meeting.

The West Tisbury select board voted March 8 to remove the program from the town meeting warrant. Citing concerns from the town manager and town attorney, the board considered documents provided by the town’s affordable housing committee for the program to be incomplete.

The schooner Amistad, a replica of the historic ship that became famous after a group of enslaved Africans led a successful revolt and won their freedom in the U.S. Supreme Court, will drop anchor at Martha’s Vineyard for Juneteenth weekend.

When it comes to Vineyard history, up-Island mariner and antiquarian bookseller Virginia Jones pulls no punches. Since 2014, she has spent her days holding court at her Menemsha bookstore.