The airline notified Martha’s Vineyard Airport last week that the flights to and from Westchester County, which ran about once a day in the summer, would be discontinued in 2024, said Geoff Freeman, the airport director. 

Beach Road Weekend, the Vineyard Haven music festival and one of the largest events on the Island in recent years, will not continue in 2024 and instead will move to Cape Cod in 2025.

After months of work to set up a new program to help Islanders replace their aging septic systems, Dukes County officials say they are struggling to attract enough interested applicants. 

John Rose pleaded not guilty Monday in Edgartown District Court to a charge of photographing, videotaping, or electronically surveilling a partially nude or nude persons. He was released on $10,000 bail and ordered to wear a tracking device.

The former Oak Bluffs fire chief who had resigned in the wake of a sexual harassment scandal was arrested Saturday.

The ferry line announced the indefinite delay last week, saying it had technical challenges Tuesday during the Head Start summer reservation openings for residents on the Vineyard and Nantucket.

Climatologists say the prevalence of strong southerly storms that have battered the Vineyard’s south shore this winter are due, in part, to the first El Niño winter in five years.

Officials said the land transfer is crucial because it will allow Navigator to take in about $53 million in grant money from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 

After drying out from a storm earlier this week, another gale hit the Island Saturday, canceling ferries and causing continued flooding. 

Michael Dakin Cochrane, the great grandson of Philip Dakin Cochrane, who helped found Universal Studios in 1912 with his brother Robert, reached out to Aquinnah town hall about the potential of hosting the event between June 15 and 30, 2025.