Pile drivers and backhoes have been rumbling just a hundred yards away, but the wild ducks on Sunset Lake in Oak Bluffs aren't budging. The fact is, while the streets in this town have been turned inside out with pipes, pumps and grinders to make way for a new sewer system, it's the ducks that appear to rule the road.

Put away the nicotine patch. Smokers who thought they were about to be pushed out of every bar on the Island may soon find friendly tobacco turf in Oak Bluffs.

Hospital leaders gave themselves a checkup this week, and while no crisis was detected, there was a prescription - for more work.

The Martha's Vineyard Commission knows all about wrangling over golf courses, but next Thursday night they will take up tennis when they consider p

In the view of Aquinnah police chief Doug Fortes, the turning point came in the fall of 1999, when rangers from the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) came back from a trip to the Oneida Indian Nation in upstate New York, packing a half dozen Glock nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistols.

Robert and Ernestine Kinnecom of Oak Bluffs spent some time this week recalling wonderful memories - memories wrapped around their Vineyard newspaper route, an early morning journey made almost every day for the past 27 years.