The Harbor Craft Shop in Menemsha closed its doors earlier this fall. When the shop reopens in the spring, it will do so under a new name, the Ruel Gallery.

A new public safety building and firehouse in Chilmark cleared another hurdle at a special town meeting Monday night when voters approved $440,000 for design work.

West Tisbury selectmen agreed last week to back a shared funding concept for a new Tri-town ambulance headquarters in Chilmark.

One glass. 250 wines. Pick up a steak tartar chicharron when you pass “go.” Those were the three rules at the Grand Tasting on Saturday, the signature event of the Martha’s Vineyard Food and Wine Festival.

As curtailed off-season service begins on the Island’s only public bus system, the Vineyard Transit Authority is seeing pushback from riders, as well as drivers and their new union.

Funding for design work on a new fire station and EMS building, and improvements in Menemsha harbor are set to come before Chilmark voters at a special town meeting Monday night.