The Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group on Friday accepted a $135,693 federal grant that will allow it to continue studying the invasive wetland grass phragmites, which it believes could play a role in reducing the amount of nitrogen in coastal ponds.

The Red Stocking Fund got a big boost Friday with a check that was large in size and amount: $13,500 from Safeco Insurance as part of their Make More Happen campaign.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank is moving forward with plans to create a seasonal low impact campground on a two-acre site inside the Southern Woodlands Reservation.

A frightening pack of newly-deceased Islanders made the rounds in Oak Bluffs Thursday evening for a Zombie Bar Crawl. They were consistently gory, occasionally inappropriate, and often quite hilarious.

As the new director of the Martha's Vineyard Commission, collaboration, starting discussions, affordable housing — and a few family trips to the beach — have been on Adam Turner's agenda.

A proposed bylaw amendment aims to preserve pre-Civil War houses in Chilmark by amending the residential building size bylaw.