Here we are one week before July 4, and we have been through July weather.

Four young Island men have bought into the lobstering business in the past two years, continuing family legacies. Three are in their early 20s; one recently turned 18, graduating from the regional high school in June.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $383,860 for the business week ending on Friday, June 21, 2024.

In celebration of its 30th anniversary, the Green Room is giving back to three different Martha’s Vineyard charities.

For a young Steve Ewing growing up in 1960s Edgartown, the beginning of summer had a very distinct flavor.

But the season didn’t officially arrive, he recalled, until the Fourth of July parade made its way through the neighborhood, drawing everyone — including him and his siblings — into the street.

“We’d ride our bikes alongside it. We’d put those streamers on the handlebars, all that. And baseball cards on the spokes,” he said.

Martha’s Vineyard Community Services officially renamed its early childhood center in honor of Paul and Sandra Pimentel.

The Island homelessness relief group Harbor Homes has begun a new summer outreach program that aims to offer food, medicine, counseling services and more to the Island’s high seasonal homeless population.

Call him resident dad. Phil Hughes, owner of Wheel Happy, is standing behind the counter of his Edgartown bike shop on recent afternoon, repairing an XC Cannondale mountain bike, spinning its wheels.

I am attuned to sound. I have been since I was a child and liked to capture the sounds, voices and happenings in my world on my red Take ‘n Tape Panasonic cassette recorder.