1+ hour, 18+ min ago  (483+ words) Tisbury voters will be back at Tisbury School Wednesday night to complete their annual town meeting, which adjourned Tuesday after more than three and a half hours of discussion and decisions. The bulk of the meeting was spent on the…...

9+ hour, 33+ min ago  (842+ words) Halfway through the boys" tennis season, a half a dozen wins already under the team"s belt, you might almost forget that the program had no head coach until a day before tryouts. That"s when Jock Cooperrider stepped in,…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1156+ words) At annual town meeting Monday night, Chilmark residents gave the initial approval for a $368. 000 override and passed a bylaw extending oversight of wetland buffer zones, while tabling a bylaw on short-term rentals. Town moderator Janet Weidner presided over the 226 residents…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (233+ words) New life is coming to the former Lobsterville Bar & Grille space in Oak Bluffs this spring. On Memorial Day, a new restaurant, raw bar and cocktail lounge called Jetty Beach House is expected to take over the teal Victorian overlooking…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (666+ words) A new book from Island author Thomas Dresser is diving into the history of storms on the Vineyard with the hope that it can prepare people for the tempests of the future." Historic Storms of Martha's Vineyard, the 18th book from…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (249+ words) The state medical examiner's office has determined that John Fort, the Grammy-nominated musician who settled on the Island, died of complications from the flu." Mr. Fort, 50, died at his family's home in Chilmark in January. Though police said no foul…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (52+ words) The Vineyard Gazette Bird Sightings on Martha's Vineyard: April 2026 Monday, April 27, 2026 Keep up with bird activity on Martha's Vineyard through the Bird News column, and report your bird sightings to email protected. Island Light: Stepping Out Island Light: This Way...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago  (1152+ words) This January, Noah Mayrand of Tisbury Oyster left his boat docked. To get to his oyster farm, instead, he walked." Mr. Mayrand has about 200 oyster cages just off the head of Tisbury Lagoon Pond, which froze enough this winter to…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago  (559+ words) The first line of Shakespeare's Hamlet is, "Who's there?" Swarthmore professor emeritus, author and Aquinnah resident Phil Weinstein will ask Islanders this very question next month, when he begins teaching his two-month "Shakespearean Explorations" course through the Vineyard Haven Library....

4+ day, 9+ hour ago  (856+ words) In 1969, John and Mildred Teal published Life and Death of the Salt Marsh, a landmark book about the fragile ecosystems created 10, 000 years ago during the retreat of the Laurentide ice sheet." Fifty-seven years later, some of the field's top scientists…...