The 80th Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby passed its halfway point and as of Thursday morning the total amount of shore fish is just over 230, with only 31 albacore weighed in. By boat over 820 fish have crossed the scales so far.

A new report by researchers at the New England Aquarium in Boston, Bigelow Laboratory and the University of Maine is four years in the making and focuses on zooplankton copepods, tiny floating crustaceans that right whales consume in mass quantities.

Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School sophomores again have outpaced their mainland peers in all three areas of state-mandated standardized testing, according to newly-released results from the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System.

Preserving stories is at the forefront of the Martha’s Vineyard Living Legends BIPOC and Immigrant Elders Oral History Project.

Tisbury voters approved all 11 warrant articles at their special town meeting Tuesday night, including a controversial $297,000 spending article to renovate the Tashmoo water works house on West Spring street.