The fast-moving, bitterly cold storm that howled across the Island last Friday and Saturday was one for the record books.

The announcement this week that more decision-making for the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital and other community hospitals will be shifted to their parent corporation is being billed as an efficiency move that won’t affect patient care.

Aquinnah at the break of dawn on the cusp of a new year is a talkative place.


Someone caught an Atlantic bonito off the jetty at Menemsha early this week.

What is so rare as a day in June when six Island towns can agree on something?

At Grey Barn farm in Chilmark a turkey has made her nest in a patch of chamomile.