Recent grants were awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association to develop and study ropeless or breakable rope fishing technology for lobstermen and other trap fishermen.

For as long as he can remember, Dan Wolf has been a tinkerer — a fidgeter, a fixer and a figure-outer, happy to futz with anything he could get his hands on.

The state Department of Energy Resources announced Wednesday that it has selected Mayflower Wind to enter contract negotiations to build a second wind farm south of Martha’s Vineyard.

Longtime Edgartown building inspector Leonard Jason Jr. is set to hang up his hard hat after three decades on the job, according to a letter of resignation submitted to the selectmen.

One glass. 250 wines. Pick up a steak tartar chicharron when you pass “go.” Those were the three rules at the Grand Tasting on Saturday, the signature event of the Martha’s Vineyard Food and Wine Festival.

When a powerful northeast storm barreled through the Atlantic seaboard and most everyone else complained or hid inside, Coast Guard Station Menemsha embraced it.