The Rev. Alden Besse, pastor, sailor, master igloo maker, president of the Martha’s Vineyard Peace Council and spiritual leader of the Vineyard Crop Walk, died on Dec. 13. He was 93 and had...

First thing in the morning at Murdick’s Fudge the copper kettle gets heated up and filled halfway with water to check the day’s boiling point. Due to humidity and other vagaries of the...

Cape Wind Associates has officially pulled out of its bid to develop a wind farm in Nantucket Sound, bringing an end to the controversial project that began in 2001. “Cape Wind has confirmed...

A few years ago, after completing his biography of Carly Simon, author Stephen Davis was considering his next book. He didn’t want to write about a rock band, he had been down that road too...

In 2008, Dan Buettner wrote a book called The Blue Zones, 9 Lessons for Living Longer. In the book he traveled the world to remote locations in Okinawa, Sardinia, Ikaria where people live very long...

Results are in from the latest state testing designed to measure school performance, but because the tests have been changed so often, the results themselves are hard to assess, Island educators say...

A few years ago, Basia Jaworska was working on a screenplay about her parents, who lived through World War II in Poland. They were teenagers at the time and Ms. Jaworska was uncovering their heroic...

In 2003, Holly Gleason attended the funeral of June Carter Cash. At the ceremony, Rosanne Cash gave a beautiful tribute to her stepmother. Ms. Gleason was moved to tears, but felt a pang of remorse...

Day returned — again. Day is my daughter’s security blanket, a small square of blue felt with a satin border she likes to move her fingers along like a set of worry beads. We are not...

Six years ago Matt Casey brought one songwriter to perform and do a workshop on the Vineyard. This weekend he is bringing more than 15 musicians and songwriters to the Island as part of his New...