Two year-round arts nonprofits will be combining forces in the new year, forming a creative coalition that encompasses theatre, film, literary and arts education. The Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse and Circuit Arts announced this week that they plan to merge in 2026.

A West Tisbury couple’s proposal for a home-based automobile repair shop has been met with vehement resistance from other property owners in the Vineyard Meadow Farms neighborhood. 

The cause of M/V Barnstable’s mangled propeller blades and gouged hull remains a mystery, after Steamship Authority engineers said this week the damage could have occurred without being noticed by the ferry’s crew.

The Steamship Authority board of governors Tuesday approved a $911,000 contract for dock work at the Vineyard Haven terminal, which is set to commence at the beginning of 2026 after the terminal’s transfer bridges are replaced next month.

Longtime Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse artistic and executive director MJ Bruder Munafo announced this week that she will retire at the end of December after more than 40 years with the nonprofit theatre, with 30 of them in the top job.

The cost of services shared by public schools on Martha’s Vineyard could be going up by nearly 9 per cent, superintendent Richard Smith told the all-Island school committee Monday night as he presented an $11.4 million draft budget for the coming fiscal year.