Blue September sky stretched wide over the Edgartown Lighthouse Saturday, where families gathered for the 23rd annual Ceremony of Remembrance.

The parade to the water’s edge begins in the first minutes after midnight Sunday morning. The 79th annual Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby will open and for the next month thousands of friends and strangers will compete in what has become one of the most prestigious fishing...

The sights and sounds of September measure the Island year better than any calendar. Look to the longer evening shadows under a sinking sun.

The Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival hosted its opening night party Thursday outside the film center on the bank of Lagoon Pond.

Island students went back to school today and the rhythms of a new year could be seen all over the Vineyard as kids waited at the end of roads and driveways for school buses to arrive, and parents sat in drop-off lines at elementary schools.

As Labor Day arrives and the traditional summer exodus begins, all roads lead to the Steamship Authority where the lines are long and the boats are sold out in one direction only: to the mainland.

The last days of August remain, perfect beach hours to touch up a tan or, for the late vacationer, to hastily acquire one. But the sun is low even after it has heated the morning, and when the hot golden days recede, the shadows are early and long.

The 162ndh annual Agricultural Fair was one for the record books with thousands of people walking through the gates between Thursday morning and Sunday evening.