About halfway through his hour-plus interview with the Martha’s Vineyard Commission, Adam Turner recounted how as planning director in a small Connecticut town he managed to get the 90-year-old owner of a junkyard to remove some 1,500 abandoned cars from a wetlands area.

The paint will be dry and the historic mural ready for first-time viewing when voters walk through the doors of the Old Whaling Church, warrants in hand, for their annual town meeting Tuesday night.

This was Robert J. Carroll's bench and Edgartown was his town, a place he surveyed constantly with pride and a critical eye.

When Sam Dunn came before the Martha’s Vineyard Commission seeking permission to build his bowling alley, one key selling point was a nitrogen-removing septic system.

After months of deep snow and bitter cold, it comes as little surprise that spring has struggled to begin.

On the Vineyard, it is March that seems most cruel. The weather is mercurial, blowing hard and cold one day, then providing a tease of real spring a few days later.