As the fiscal year nears an end, the high school is anticipating some $230,000 in budget overruns, school accountant Mark Friedman said this week.

The demolition of a house believed to be one of the oldest homes in Vineyard Haven has stirred shock and confusion.

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission voted Thursday to approve the undersea cables that will transmit electricity from a giant wind farm off the Vineyard. The approval comes with conditions.

This month hospital employees will be able to live in renovated rooms in the former Hanover House in Vineyard Haven. A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new project was held Thursday afternoon.

Four new doctors recently signed on at the hospital to work in the primary care department full time. The patient waiting list, which numbered close to 500 about a year ago, is gone.

Island naturalist Gus Ben David stopped by the Gazette Wednesday morning with a strigine guest in tow: a five-and-a-half-week-old great horned owl.