In a statement issued Thursday morning from Chilmark, President Obama condemned the continuing violence in Egypt and announced that the United Stat

The Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard is grateful to Jeffrey White and Eleanor Hubbard for donating the proceeds of the open studio event they held at their house in West Tisbury last weekend. It was to honor Ulla, their rescue cat, on her 20th birthday. Ulla is a calico whose hearing is a bit iffy, but who can still jump up on the bed. Calico cats are long-lived by reputation.

The Gay Head Lighthouse Committee wants you to join in to help save the lighthouse and the committee is getting creative. Or rather, the time is for you to get creative and be a part of the lighthouse poetry project.

The idea is straightforward — write a poem about the Gay Head Lighthouse. Stroll your memories for moments spent with the lighthouse. Go back in time or stay with the precarious present moment when erosion threatens the future of the light.

At dusk last night a single lantern lit by Gordon Long and his son Roy made its way down the center aisle of the Tabernacle in the Oak Bluffs Camp Ground. There was a collective gasp from the large crowd gathered inside the Tabernacle and around blankets and picnic baskets on the lawn.

Nothing, not even a partial road closure and some imposing detour signs, will keep people from the fair. That’s the hope of Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society as the 152nd annual Livestock Show and Fair begins today at the West Tisbury fair grounds on Panhandle Road.

The Martha’s Vineyard Sharks rode the postseason wave on Wednesday night, soundly defeating the Nashua Silver Knights 11-2 in New Hampshire in the