Jeffrey Madison remembers playing board games to the light of a kerosene lamp at a time when many of his neighbors still didn’t have electricity. His childhood home stood in the sweep of the...

Cottage City Oysters hopes to boost production next year with a new upweller, where baby oysters can get a head start before being transferred to cages at the bottom of Vineyard Sound. The Oak...

Hundreds gathered Saturday for the annual Living Local Harvest Festival, a celebration of sustainable living held each fall on the grounds of the Agricultural Society in West Tisbury. Green grass...

A steady increase in water use in Oak Bluffs abated somewhat this year, but town officials are bracing for a time when the five municipal wells in town can no longer satisfy the summer demand....

At summer’s end, the Vineyard committee on hunger is gearing up for the coming year, and also planning to support the victims of Hurricane Irma in Florida with an emergency donation. The...

Traffic, parking and neighborhood concerns took the stage last week at a hearing of the Martha’s Vineyard Commission, which is reviewing a proposed expansion of the Edgartown Stop & Shop....

Herbicide spraying on West Chop and near the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road could begin as early as Friday, after the state pesticide board voted last week not to consider a one-year moratorium on...

More than 15 years ago, with an Island housing shortage on his mind, Fred B. Morgan Jr. took a drive out to Ocean Heights in Edgartown, a residential neighborhood on the outskirts of town. What he...

Debate continued last week before the Martha’s Vineyard Commission over Verizon’s plan to raise a communication tower in Vineyard Haven from 77 to 138 feet. Verizon wants to raise the...

Danny Glover and Joslyn Barnes both grew up watching films from around the world. Eventually they crossed paths and began producing films of their own, many of them focused on issues in the global...