My first trips to Muskeget in 2020, in late January and four months later on Memorial Day weekend, perfectly sandwiched the coronavirus pandemic.

Over the past year, it has become increasingly clear that climate change is accelerating.

At their special town meeting Tuesday night Oak Bluffs voters swiftly agreed to send a home-rule petition to the state legislature that would give the town the power to ban moped rentals.

A reader once remarked that her favorite parts of the Gazette were the town columns, because they made her feel like the Vineyard was a place where she could belong.