It’s just after five o’clock on a potholed stretch of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. I’m in the slow lane, moving along a concrete wall between the road and a back row of mostly dark apartments. Beyond those apartments are more apartments, a long line of giraffe-shaped cranes, and the very beginnings of a New York city morning. Almost exactly a decade after my first trip, I’m back on the road to Martha’s Vineyard. Things are the same and things are different.

Affordable housing, Island health care, and the cost of education were a few of the hot spots Tisbury voters endured at their annual town meeting T

Aquinnah Building Triggers Controversy

Tribal Officials and Town Leadership Collide Over Construction on Indian Property Without Normal Permits

By COLE LOUISON

A shack beside the shellfish hatchery on the Wampanoag Tribe's property has raised the question of building rights in Aquinnah and sharp objections from some town officials.

Tisbury selectmen took the first step toward changing the Tisbury police department this week, a department labeled dysfunctional at best by a report released from an outside agency. Released Feb. 27 after four months of research, the report made 11 recommendations for changes in the department, all of which were unanimously approved by the board Tuesday evening.

Board Accepts Police Plan

By COLE LOUISON

Tisbury selectmen took the first step toward changing the Tisbury police department this week, a department labeled "dysfunctional at best" by a report released from an outside agency. Released Feb. 27 after four months of research, the report made 11 recommendations for changes in the department, all of which were unanimously approved by the board Tuesday evening.