I’m an architect from Florence, Italy and a Vineyard summer resident since 1994.

The announcement this week that more decision-making for the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital and other community hospitals will be shifted to their parent corporation is being billed as an efficiency move that won’t affect patient care.

Aquinnah at the break of dawn on the cusp of a new year is a talkative place.

The lack of affordable housing on Martha’s Vineyard has reached a crisis, where businesses and essential services are being increasingly hobbled by an inability to find workers.

The time is way past due for an upgrade to the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, a major capital spending project that is projected to cost at least $100 million.

A reader once remarked that her favorite parts of the Gazette were the town columns, because they made her feel like the Vineyard was a place where she could belong.