Islanders turned out under beautiful sunny skies at the season’s inaugural First Friday event in Vineyard Haven. The day-long festival began with an art market along Beach street extension and moved to Owen Park where food and music kept them full and dancing.

The Martha's Vineyard Regional High School class of 2024 will graduate June 9, at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs. The diverse group of students are remembered at their school as thoughtful, hardworking, and eager to engage in the community around them.

June is the month of bursting colors and beguiling aromas, and now we are on the threshold of summer. The new season officially arrives a few weeks from now, but Memorial Day often is a truer marker of the Vineyard’s summer, and truer yet are the warm days and cool nights of early June.

Island Housing Trust along with numerous other Island groups have completed construction on four affordable apartments at Carl Widdis Way in Aquinnah.

Veterans, family and members of the Island community gathered Monday to march in the Memorial Day parade and pay tribute to the fallen. 

There can be no argument about the season turning. The signs are everywhere. Already the ferries are jammed on weekends and even weekdays. Lines for cars coming and going from the Vineyard grow longer. The traffic in village streets is heavier and even now parking spots are at a premium.

Tisbury school students walked down Main street to Owen Park as part of their annual March to the Sea tradition to honor veterans who have given their life. Taps was played, songs were sung and flowers were placed in the water.

With Memorial Day comes the unofficial start to the busy summer season. Across the Island, store owners are unboxing new merchandise and home owners are putting one last coat of paint of the fence.