This weekend the Island Community Chorus is digging deeply for a concert highlighted by Vivaldi’s classic Beatus Vir, composed for double choir and orchestra.

An unprecedented series of equipment failures that has crippled the Steamship Authority for most of the past month was a “perfect storm” of events that could not have been foreseen, the boat line port council heard Wednesday.

The colorful, gumptious Oak Bluffs businessman and former longtime emergency management director, died Tuesday at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Marking the end of six years of deliberations and debate, the Edgartown planning board voted 4 to 1 to approve the installation of a permanent cell tower on Chappaquiddick at a packed meeting Tuesday night.

here was a great deal of confusion at the Edgartown Post Office Tuesday morning, where the service windows did not open until after 11:15 a.m.