Seasoned egg hunters know there are multiple strategies for filling up your basket.

The Tisbury board of assessors has reversed a decision to tax several town nonprofits, board chairman Angela Cywinski confirmed.

Family, friends and hundreds of Edgartown’s finest gathered at the Old Whaling Church on Monday to honor the life of the native son, senior statesman and war hero.

It was opening day at the Flying Horses Carousel and Helena Penn, age 11, called her three rides “awesome.”

Midway through an especially fractious town meeting season, voters may reasonably wonder why anyone would want to preside over these raucous affairs. Everett Poole, who has served as Chilmark town moderator for more than four decades, has his reasons and will share them next Tuesday evening when he takes center stage at this month's Tuesdays in the Newsroom event at the Gazette.

Islanders live in a seasonal cycle, a golden ring, if you will, that carries us from the extremes of summer frenzy to the extremes of winter isolation and back again.