After five years at the helm of Hospice and Palliative Care of Martha’s Vineyard, Cathy Wozniak will retire as executive director. Taking her place will be Chantale Patterson, who has been with the organization for nearly nine years.

The Edgartown select board approved a 12 per cent rate increase for the Chappy Ferry, as residents raised concerns about financial transparency.

Nearly 30 artisans took part in the Native Artisans Festival in Aquinnah Saturday. The annual event is now in its 18th year and works to share the value of Indigenous art with the Island community.

Aquinnah residents aired grievances to the select board this week about the new LED beacon inside the recently-renovated Gay Head lighthouse. 

While Chilmark officials were cool to the idea of term limits for the Steamship board of governors, the Aquinnah select board gave the bill enthusiastic support.

In Joseph Lee’s debut book, Nothing More Of This Land: Community, Power and the Search for Indigenous Identity, he tells the story of Indigenous tribes around the country in an attempt to answer the question of what it means to be Native.