Variations in temperature can affect flowering and leaf-out around the Vineyard, with a distinct lag time up-Island, where colder temperatures usually mean a later spring.

Much has changed in Edgartown in the past 50 years, but one thing has not: at every town meeting and election, a Searle was on hand, wearing a constable’s badge.

The $2.5 million expansion of the Martha’s Vineyard Refuse District’s central transfer station is on hold for now after Edgartown voted against the project at town meeting.

A midwife, a social science teacher, five high school seniors, a domestic violence counselor and a fire lieutenant are among 12 Vineyarders chosen to be part of the 2016 Martha’s Vineyard Vision Fellowship program.