Island military veterans and active service members marched through the streets of downtown Oak Bluffs Saturday morning for the annual Martha’s Vineyard Veterans Day parade, hosted by the Dukes County Veterans Service Center.

You got to love the crisp, clear nights of autumn. Now that we are in the time of Standard Time, and put Daylight Savings time away, we get an early dose of evening. Trips home from work are dark.

Step outside before the dinner hour and the brightest of stars are already overhead. To those who wait a little longer, the Milky Way is an easy find.

The Milky Way extends overhead and across the sky, rising in the northeast and passing overhead, then descending down to the southwestern horizon.

The Island Food Pantry’s proposed new food distribution center in Oak Bluffs appears to be on a glide path after the project won unanimous approval last week from the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.

This year’s state-mandated student census, held annually at the start of October, showed a slight dip in enrollment across nearly all Island schools.

Eighty years ago, while World War II was raging in Europe, the military carved 683 acres out of the state forest on the Vineyard to create the United States Naval Auxiliary Facility.

Last spring a Chicken Alley Thrift Shop volunteer found an important work by Nigerian artist Ben Enwonwu among a large pile of donations. Last week the painting sold for $10,000 at a Sotheby's auction.

The Alison Boylston Piazza house has sat in its location on Upper Main street in Edgartown for 175 years and for much of its life has embraced a musical legacy that continues today.

Island artist Taylor Stone’s first-ever solo show is really three exhibitions in one, all infused with her love of the magical and fantastic.

Jerome Kohlberg and his wife Nancy were well known for their Island philanthropy. A lesser-known story involved Mr. Kohlberg's commitment to veterans.

From the November 8, 1974 edition of the Vineyard Gazette by Polly Woollcott Murphy: There was a time in West Tisbury when weather vanes were as ubiquitous as the television antennae that now adorn the roofs of the town.