Oak Bluffs police are investigating the unauthorized removal of a 35-foot-tall catalpa tree on the corner of Grove and Ocean avenues in Ocean Park.

A Newton-based developer has purchased two adjacent quarter-acre Edgartown properties that include the storied Dairy Queen building for $2.8 million.

After months of planning and debate, comprehensive coronavirus testing is due to begin this week in Martha’s Vineyard public schools.

Abe Harold Courtney was born at 4:47 a.m. on Jan. 2 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital, the first baby of the new year on the Vineyard. Abe weighed 8 pounds, 9.7 ounces at birth. The proud parents are Cassie Bradley and Patrick Courtney of Chilmark.

The last day of 2020 brought 21 new positive coronavirus tests on the Island — likely the highest number of Covid-19 cases reported in a single day since the pandemic began.

A year unlike any other, 2020 brought with it sweeping change and challenges normally only felt on a geological time scale, all cast in a global pandemic.