I went to college in Texas in the mid 1960’s. As a Yankee, I found many of the local expressions to be both perplexing and comical.

The Tisbury select board heard objections last week to a split-rail fence recently built at the Tashmoo Spring building area, where the town administrator lives.

An 85-year-old woman was found dead in her swimming pool in Chilmark on Monday, according to Chilmark police. Officers were called to a home on Black Point Road at about 2:20 p.m.

A request to push the weekly summer Dock Dance concerts at Memorial Wharf to a later time received a poor reception from the town’s select board this week.

Featherstone Center for the Arts celebrated its 30th anniversary with an open house Sunday, inviting community members to participate in instructor-led creative workshops.

A legal fight over an accessory dwelling unit in Edgartown was settled between the owner and the town this spring before it went to trial.

A group of runners get into a van, are driven to a remote part of Chappaquiddick and then dropped off to fend for themselves. Sounds like a punchline for a joke — or the pilot episode of a reality ...

Chilmarkers sped through a single-article special town meeting Monday that was called to ensure the town remained out of the ...

Researchers are turning to Martha’s Vineyard and other New England areas that have been hit hard with Lyme disease in order to better understand why some people experience symptoms of the tick-borne ...

The Steamship Authority’s new Woods Hole ticket office and waiting room finally opened to the public Thursday morning, after more than a year and a half of highly visible, and sometimes controversial, ...