The Steamship Authority is proposing significant, across-the-board rate hikes in an effort to cover expected losses in revenue and budget shortfalls during the 2021 operating season.

Lone star ticks — and thousands of their larvae — have overrun the town of Aquinnah, biologist and tick expert Richard Johnson told Aquinnah selectmen Wednesday.

Chilmark selectmen voted Tuesday to approve new regulations for the upcoming scallop and oyster seasons, while keeping a close eye on toxic blue-green algae growth in coastal ponds.

New pandemic-related expenses and the use of contingency funds to cover them were the subject of lively debate at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School district committee meeting Monday.

The Martha’s Vineyard Hospital has admitted a patient with Covid-19, officials announced Wednesday morning — the first patient admitted to the hospital with the virus.