We have a Christmas adoption to report! Grace, the six-year-old tortoiseshell who is as sweet as can be, found her wonderful, forever home on Christmas eve.

Irish harpist and singer Áine Minogue returns to the Island with a concert on Saturday, Jan. 3 at the First Congregational Church of West Tisbury.

The trails in the West Chop Woods have been temporarily closed due to concerns that an infestation of beetles has left the trees there too brittle to stand. The Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation, which owns ...

In early December, Island chef Shamel Abraham opened Honorary Tavern at the VFW, serving a breakfast, lunch and dinner menu that blends Jamaican culinary influences with New England tavern fare.

The most frequently observed alcid species is the razorbill. Charles Morano spotted 15 of them from the ferry on Dec. 16, Bob Shriber counted 22 from Aquinnah on Dec. 17, and Chris Scott saw three off ...

Gavin M. Fraser purchased 6 Church street in Aquinnah from Jacob M. Ward Trust and Jessica S. Ward Trust for $2,120,000 on Dec. 18.

Friday, December 26, the crescent moon appears really close to the bright planet Saturn.

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Due to the danger posed by dead trees beside the trails, Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation has closed all of the trails at West Chop Woods. The trails will reopen for public use once the hazardous trees ...

The Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game granted the town $30,000 to help with  the preliminary design study for the removal of the dam, according to department representative Krista Haas.

The Island’s electric supplier is in the process of finishing off a massive $310 million project that is hoped to meet the growing demand of energy on Martha’s Vineyard.

The time is right for a pause, here on the cusp of the New Year. It is a time to ask what resonates from the year that was. Do not dwell on what inflamed or angered, troubled or disappointed. Rather, ...