Peter Brannen’s book The Ends of the World explores the six mass extinctions on Earth and what they might tell us about our own dangerous experiment on the planet.

Efforts to further support people affected by opioid addiction on the Island, and a townwide plan to create affordable housing topped the agenda for a meeting of the Oak Bluffs selectmen on Tuesday.

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission is expected to decide next month whether to require Santander Bank in Vineyard Haven to restore a Spanish tile roof that was replaced with red asphalt shingles last year without proper permissions, in an apparent administrative snafu.

Traffic, lighting and the future prospect of recreational sales are all questions as a proposed medical marijuana dispensary and cultivation center in West Tisbury project works its way through the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.

On a brilliant afternoon this week, workers took apart a massive white tent that arched above the historic Mayhew-Hancock-Mitchell House in Chilmark.

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission, state representatives, town officials and others are all calling on the utility giant to find alternatives to herbicide spraying under power lines this year.