This week produced three new species for the year, all water birds.

There is nothing quite like the lift of a person's spirits when the heat and humidity drops.

Before Sherry Sidoti was an author and yoga teacher, she was a studio manager, sweeping, framing and fetching supplies for her artist grandmother.

A member of the family who developed one of the Island’s first resort-style inns ventures to tell the tale of his family’s past in his new book The Harborside Inn: A History from 1914 to 1980.

British botanist and vicar Henry Honeywood D'Ombrain had many reasons to be glad.

A few years ago, Steve Katz, doctor of chiropractic, looked out on the pond he had built in his West Tisbury backyard and thought it could be better.

More than 40 years after it was filmed in Oak Bluffs between 1962 and 1966 and premiered at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown, Othello returns to the Island, this time screening at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center on August 11 at 7:30 p.m.

Congratulations to Oak Bluffs serial entrepreneur Kahina Van Dyke whose Jubilee Vintage retail store opened this past Sunday.

The windows are open, the curtains are moving with the breeze and there is no humidity. Relief.

I think they call it ocean physics and it seems to be playing a role in bringing interesting fish to the Texaco touch tank nestled in the notch where the Commercial and Dutcher docks meet.