Selectmen in Oak Bluffs and Edgartown are within their rights to make new appointments to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission, but their process and choices suggest special interests are at play.

Deep winter has settled over the Vineyard with its pale colors and subtle shifts.

An edited selection from Gazette nature editorials in the past year.

If the coronavirus pandemic has made life more difficult for many Islanders, it has also illuminated the extraordinary generosity of the larger community.

Two weeks ago the cut was opened in the Tisbury Great Pond.

Martha’s Vineyard has done a lot of things right to keep the coronavirus at bay, but the alarming increase in Covid cases in recent weeks proves there is more to be done.