Ongoing debate over whether to install artificial turf athletic fields or grass fields at the regional high school dominated the district committee meeting Monday evening.

Chilmark selectmen submitted a bid to buy Beetlebung Farm on Friday following an executive session Thursday night.

Sunday night’s first quarter moon appears close and to the west of the bright planet Saturn.

With tick-borne diseases a growing matter of public health concern on the Vineyard, education and prevention are more important than ever, a leading expert said.

It is September now — a new month and a new stage of avian migration.

The brown-hooded owlet is a brown and very nondescript moth, a plain Jane even among moths.