Plans to convert the regional high school's main athletic field to artificial turf, narrowly approved by the Martha's Vineyard Commission last month, are under scrutiny by the Oak Bluffs planning board.

Committees from Edgartown and Chilmark shuttled up to the state house last week and came back with nearly $300,000 in grant funding for coastal resiliency and climate change planning.

Devon Metters could have weighed in one of the largest shore-caught false albacore of the Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass & Bluefish derby’s second day Sunday. He caught a real tuna instead.

Sunday night the crescent moon shines within a few degrees of Antares, the brightest star in the zodiacal constellation Scorpius.

The Tisbury town administrator pressed his select board this week to take a tough stance against the ongoing practice by Eversource of spraying herbicides beneath power line rights of way.

As recently as 20 years ago, we would find a roosting flock with a thousand or more terns, primarily common and roseate terns with occasional Forster's and black terns, on the bay side of Norton Point Beach.