More than 30 years ago, at a Chinese restaurant in Boston, a message from a fortune cookie set Island resident, Dr. Gerry Yukevich, on course for a lifelong love affair with Caribbean cruising.

Memorial Day weekend brings with it a range of emotions — from the adrenalin of the busy season to quiet reflections on what the holiday means as service men and women are remembered for giving the greatest sacrifice.

Thirty-three ambulatory care nurses at the hospital filed the petition on Monday with the National Labor Relations Board and hope to soon have an union election.

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection last week notified the town that it needed to come up with plan after five monitoring wells had detected levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances above the state standard. 

The aim of the study is to assess how much human activity can take place without irreversible damage to the quality of life Islanders want.

Island Time, the Vineyard Haven dispensary owned by Geoff Rose, filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging the Cannabis Control Commission’s ban on transporting marijuana from the mainland to the Island is arbitrary and puts an undue burden on Island-based dispensaries.