The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School committee voted 7-1 Monday to allow the continued development of a new policy preventing nearly all student use of mobile phones during the school day.

Marlin Goodman, #8, stood on the mound, his Vineyard-purple jersey tucked into gray baseball slacks. Penn Field was quiet. The scoreboard displayed a full count. Barnstable had runners on second and third.

Threats to American democracy was the theme of a talk between Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-MA 7th District) and Kahina Van Dyke, organizer of the Juneteenth Jubilee events, on Saturday at Union Chapel.

For NaDaizja Bolling, director of the Aquinnah Cultural Center, it is important to have a museum that is centered on self-determination.

Food and justice were on the menu at the third annual Taste of Juneteenth on Sunday.

Reading the newspaper, watching television or surfing the internet, we acknowledge these are turbulent times. However, examining world affairs, the most pressing issue seems to be the Coney Island hot dog eating controversy

The Marthas’s Vineyard Commission week opened a hearing last week on Chilmark landowner Susan Eddy’s plans to subdivide her Welles Way property for family use.

As the first Camp Jabberwocky campers arrived on-Island Sunday morning, a camper leaned over the ferry railing and pumped his fists in the air. “Are you ready?” Seth called out from high above on the boat.

The cyanobacteria bloom advisory in Chilmark Pond has been extended to include the Abel’s Hill and Doctors Creek areas in addition to the middle of the pond.

Women on Martha’s Vineyard are being urged to demonstrate at Edgartown’s Lighthouse Beach on June 24.