The Steamship Authority deserves credit for seeking the public’s help in crafting its first-ever strategic plan, a document designed to set forth the boatline’s aspirations for the future.

The relentless wind that has battered the Island for months finally eased up early this week.

It's been a week of hard truths for the Martha's Vineyard Commission.

Continued debate this week over legal spending on a lawsuit between the regional high school committee and the Oak Bluffs planning board over artificial turf eclipsed what was arguably a much more important development: approval by all six towns of a new high school funding formula.

Sixteen new trees for the historic district and a bylaw to restrict noise on Sundays in West Tisbury.

It's been five years since independent consultants at HMS in Seattle, Wash. issued their detailed management study of the Steamship Authority following an unprecedented series of breakdowns on ferries.