The health and economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are causing increased demand for supplemental food on Martha’s Vineyard, according to a report from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Rural Health Scholars program.

Neither global pandemic nor autumn storm could keep the organizers and musicians of LadyFest from their annual mission: to help Island victims of domestic violence.

The future of food trucks in West Tisbury should be decided by voters, town officials said Wednesday, after planning board members requested that selectmen allow the mobile eateries.

Tisbury selectmen said this week they have made contact with the owner of the Edu Comp building in downtown Vineyard Haven, which has been floated.

A new exhibition of photographs by Libby Ellis at the Carnegie in Edgartown offers a different way of looking at Island flowers.

Small business owners on Martha’s Vineyard can now apply for forgivable federal loans covering up to $10,000 of losses caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.