For months there has been an air of inevitability in Oak Bluffs about John Rose’s eventual departure as chief of the town fire and ambulance department.

What a difference thirty-five years makes.

From beachfronts to government offices, grass roots environmental activism is alive and well among young people on Martha’s Vineyard.

Last Friday night the middle school basketball championships took place at the regional high school gym.

The perennial mild griping about the Steamship Authority among seasonal and full-time Islanders has taken on a new, sharper tone in recent months.

Winter tiptoed in this year, like a teen who stayed out too late and was careful to not wake a sleeping household.