July is National Lost Pet Prevention Month, and new national data reveals that pets are nearly twice as likely to go missing during the summer months. As the Island fills with visitors and families, ...

A new collection of housing reports is highlighting significant wealth disparities seen across the Vineyard, an increase in housing insecurity, and how substantially the short-term rental market is ...

Add it to the list of fanfare surrounding the “Jaws” 50th anniversary on the Island: The Mass Lottery is hosting what they ...

Welcome to the heart of summer, and we hope you are enjoying all that our Island has to offer.  We have lots of news to share ...

Martha’s Vineyard Hospital is reporting an increase in tick-related visits to the emergency room to start the summer season, ...

The Tisbury Street Fair lit up Main Street Haven Tuesday night, heralding the 354th anniversary of Tisbury’s official incorporation back in 1671.  The annual celebration that started in 1971 brought ...

Two of Martha’s Vineyard United’s youth summer soccer teams headed off to Lancaster to compete in the Massachusetts Tournament of Champions (MTOC) last month, earning respectable placements.  The boys ...

A celebration of life for Nancy Wood, who died on June 10, 2025, will be held at the Unitarian Church in Haven on July 19 at 2 pm. Please consider a donation to the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard ...

The Martha’s Vineyard Times is an independently owned, weekly, community newspaper, published by The MV Times News Corp. on the island of Martha’s Vineyard ...

Margaret Ann Deitrich (Kammerer), 93, of Chilmark, who died on April 20, 2025, will have a memorial service at the Chilmark Community Church, 9 Menemsha Road, Chilmark, on Saturday, July 19, at 11 am.

Ency Fokos died peacefully in the early hours of May 23, 2025, at her home in Chilmark, surrounded by her children. She was 87. Ency was born in the picturesque town of Késmárk, Czechoslovakia (now ...

Sandra L. Healy, 84, of Dartmouth, formerly of Vineyard Haven, died unexpectedly at St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford on July 3, 2025. She was the mother of Elexis Wildanger and Glenn Pachico, and ...