After some three years of courtship, Cape Air and JetBlue Airways chose Valentine's Day to announce a marriage of customer convenience for passengers to and from Logan International Airport.

Beginning next month, passengers arriving from or departing to 20 destinations across America with JetBlue will be able to connect far more easily with Cape Air flights to the Cape and Islands.

In their continuing effort to support local commercial fishermen, Chilmark selectmen want to better define such fishermen in the town.

At stake is who qualifies for Menemsha perks in matters such as dock space and fuel prices - and who doesn't.

The Martha's Vineyard Catholic church is at risk for having no permanent priest, possibly needing to consolidate three church buildings into one and cutting Masses to three a month, according to a long-term planning document prepared for the parish.

Support Uneven for Establishing Energy District

By IAN FEIN

Edgartown selectmen are poised to play spoiler in an Islandwide effort to put an energy conservation proposal before Vineyard voters this spring.

At their meeting last week, the selectmen all but announced that they would not place on the annual town meeting warrant a proposed article that would start the process of creating an Islandwide energy conservation district of critical planning concern (DCPC).

The Martha's Vineyard Regional High School district committee was on the receiving end of some tough questions on Monday night - all of them centered on drugs at the high school.

What would happen if a police dog found drugs in a student's locker? Would it automatically become a police matter?  What if one student put drugs in another student's locker - or in a teacher's things? And what about student rights?

The new double-ended ferry Island Home pulled into the Steamship Authority wharf in Fairhaven on Monday afternoon, a few minutes before sunset, aft