After a long, cold winter, Vineyard property owners are getting some welcome news: people are still willing to pay thousands of dollars a week to r

Principal Assessor Questioned for Hours; Town Tax Trial Heads Into a Third Week

By IAN FEIN

BOSTON - West Tisbury principal assessor Jo-Ann Resendes this week defended the town's property tax values during two days of testimony marked by contested exchanges in a legal case that carries far-reaching implications for the community.

With high school prom night just eight days away and graduation only around the corner, you can almost taste a celebratory mood in the air. Fancy dresses, tuxedos and limousines are lined up - maybe even a few dance lessons at Fanny Blair Hall in Vineyard Haven to get ready.

FARM Institute Pulls the Plug on Huge Summer Concert Plan

By MAX HART

A budding plan to stage a huge summer concert at Katama Farm evaporated when the FARM Institute abruptly withdrew its application for the event before a special meeting of the Edgartown conservation commission on Wednesday night.

Gus Ben David's newest feathered friend is seven weeks old, and subsists on a diet of rats and mice.