In a garage-top office near the Tisbury School, as a small group of tradesmen prepared their morning coffee, Alan P. Fortes reflected on a lifetime in the plumbing business.

A dispute over events held at the Vineyard Preservation Trust’s Grange Hall ended Thursday when the West Tisbury zoning board of appeals granted a special permit to the nonprofit.

The relocation of the WHOI Pioneer Array from Vineyard waters to North Carolina signals the end of an era for the high-tech system, one of five active stations in the National Science Foundation’s Ocean Observatories Initiative.

Who am I to sit in idle gluttony, to eat of a bounty towards which I put no toil?

At the first meeting of the new mending club at the Edgartown Library, exhibit A was a pair of ripped denim pants, torn and paint stained.

West Tisbury officials previously raised concerns over the frequency of events held at the hall, resulting in a lawsuit between the town and the Vineyard Preservation Trust.

West Tisbury is pumping the brakes on plans to renovate the Howes House after the select board voted Wednesday to withdraw an article to appropriate $215,000 for a project now estimated to cost $10 million in total.

It’s only February but Chilmark residents, business owners and officials are already looking for ways to ease Menemsha’s summer traffic.

An off-Island animal control officer came to the Vineyard Saturday to talk about coyotes after the predators have been seen several times on the Vineyard this winter.

Administered by Martha’s Vineyard Community Services and funded by MVYouth, a new initiative is underway to increase the number of licensed home childcare programs on the Island.