With six shopping days left until Christmas, Tisbury merchants say the women will come early, the men late.

Flu season is here, and the biggest concern now is who might get it.

Dr. Melanie Miller, a pediatrician, said this week: "We have been inundated by concerned parents. There are a lot of panicking parents out there."

For the moment, the main challenge to health care providers is education rather than treatment.

Tree-Cutting Questions Pull Southern Woodlands Back Before Commission

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

Connecticut developer Corey Kupersmith came back onto the radar screen this week in a fresh collision with the town of Oak Bluffs and the Martha's Vineyard Commission - this time over a tree-cutting project that may or may not be in violation of state and local laws.

Red Stocking Fillers This Year Will Delight 270 Island Children

By ALEXIS TONTI

At the other end of the year from the sleek summer fundraising season, a grassroots charity pursues its purpose.

The Red Stocking Fund holds no auctions or celebrity fundraisers. It has no board of directors, and its managers bear no administrative titles. The core group of volunteers meets only once a year to set the date - this year, Dec. 19 - on which strained and straitened parents will receive the Island's gifts for more than 270 of its children.

Cable Cameras Changing Face of Government

By CHRIS BURRELL

Amy Tierney never bargained on becoming a television celebrity. But now when the top number-cruncher for the Vineyard public schools runs out the door to attend yet another meeting, budgets and invoices aren't the only things dogging her mind.

How about her make-up and wardrobe?