When leaders of the Island Affordable Housing Fund (IAHF) say they'll be collecting $14 million within five years, it's clear there's no room for n

Snapshot of a Changing Neighborhood: Now, Lights Go Out in Winter Months

By MANDY LOCKE

FARM Institute, the novice non-profit dedicated to bolstering the Vineyard's agricultural heritage, is putting its first Island home up for sale, planning to surrender a foothold in the storied Herring Creek Farm.

The transaction will help bankroll the institute's vision for neighboring Katama Farm - a 190-acre spread that the town of Edgartown turned over to FARM Institute this spring.

The thousands of Vineyarders who flocked to the Island's south shore this weekend found a new respect for Mother Nature, whose wrath carved out monstrous swells along the southern coast in the wake of Hurricane Fabian.

Taylor Toole's Film Will Appear in Boston Festival, Island Theatres

By MANDY LOCKE

Fourteen months ago, when he was begging and borrowing his way through 12 grueling days of directing his first film on Martha's Vineyard, Taylor Toole had doubts about finishing the project.

Let alone making it onto a selective list of short features premiering at the Boston Film Festival this weekend.

Hallgate Is Cleared of Its Junked Cars

Edgartown Officials Tour Subdivision, and Are Pleased After Year's Effort; Now, the Lot Next Door

By MANDY LOCKE

It was a moment Edgartown officials doubted would ever come.

Town leaders peered down the narrow dirt drive winding through Hallgate Wednesday morning, and for the first time in more than three years, saw only shards of glass where mounds of junk cars once rusted.