A plan to cut down 175-acres of pine trees in the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest is set to proceed after a state environmental agency determined the project does not need to go through another layer of environmental review.

The Island was buffeted by winds from the south in 2025, fueled not by high and low pressure airflows matching wits along the jet stream, but launched from Washington by a new President set on making his mark near and far.

Tatiana Schlossberg, a journalist, author and lifelong seasonal resident of Aquinnah, died on Dec. 30. The cause, as reported in national news outlets, was leukemia.

Here are 10 of the stories that most engaged Gazette readers in print and online in 2025. 

We have a Christmas adoption to report! Grace, the six-year-old tortoiseshell who is as sweet as can be, found her wonderful, forever home on Christmas eve.