West Tisbury selectmen are considering how to word an agreement with the owner of the first medical marijuana dispensary and cultivation facility.

The Vineyard was a scene of flooded roads and docks, eroded shorelines, beached sailboats and downed trees on Saturday.

A ferocious northeast storm lashed the Vineyard with heavy rains and hurricane-force winds Friday, flooding roads, battering coastlines and cancelling ferries for the day.

After a year of rising concern about North Atlantic right whales, scientists have yet to document a single newborn whale during calving season.

Improvements around Gay Head Light and changing town assessors from elected to appointed will come before Aquinnah voters at a special town meeting Tuesday.

Eversource will not spray herbicides around power lines on the Island this year, but debate is far from over as the utility giant files a five-year plan that would allow continued spraying.