The Edgartown selectmen were asked this week to take a look at accessibility issues for town meetings, which are held at the Old Whaling Church.

Oak Bluffs resident Mike DeBettencourt will be honored at Monday night’s Boston Celtics game for donating a kidney to his father in law last year.

A painstaking hand recount supervised by the Edgartown town clerk Monday found the vote for a new Katama Airfield hangar was a tie.

Funding for a new airplane hangar at the Katama Airfield, narrowly defeated at the Edgartown town election April 12, will be subject to a recount.

Community policing on Martha’s Vineyard requires a special set of skills, four chiefs and the sheriff said during a Gazette discussion this week.

Three North Atlantic right whales were seen south of Martha’s Vineyard this week; mariners are advised to use caution.