Brigitte Cornand, longtime deputy director of West Tisbury’s Dumptique, called recently from France, where she now lives, with New Year’s greetings for all her Vineyard friends.

The following is the preamble to the West Tisbury zoning bylaw amendment drafted by the Preserve West Tisbury committee.

Muskeget Island is a small scrap of land roughly a mile long, half a mile wide, sitting a few miles west of Nantucket.

I have a special place in my heart for small world stories, especially the ones that include me.

In terms of climate change, 2021 was a chaotic and destructive year with almost constant record-breaking extreme weather events.

On Dec. 26, Archbishop Desmond Tutu died at age 90 in Cape Town, South Africa. He was a giant of human rights, and an inspiration to me.