Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation will begin cleaning up forest debris this week at the Phillips Preserve related to the southern pine beetle infestation.

Chilmark
David Sinopoli purchased 2 Rockrose Path in Chilmark from Jane Fagell and David W. Fagell Estate for $1,550,000 on Sept. 5.

Olivia Higham Fielder and William Fielder, of Oak Bluffs, announce the birth of a son, Owen Douglas Fielder, born on Sept. 6 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.

Ana Cristina Lewis and Jodare Lewis, of Edgartown, announce the birth of a son, Julian Augusto Lewis, born on Sept. 8 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.

We have had a series of "it's great to be alive" days. The almost fall weather has lifted everyone's spirits.

Migration will peak in these next couple of weeks, so this is a good time to be out and about looking for birds.

Marsha Winsyrg will speak at the Martha's Vineyard Museum on Friday, Sept. 13 at 4 p.m. about her work with the African Artists Community Development Project.

Susan Straight of Chilmark has car trouble.

In the first week of September, the hospital emergency room treated “approximately 20 cases of lesions that are consistent with tick larvae bites,” said Dr. Ellen McMahon, the hospital’s chief of medicine.

September is the month when a little churning in the far side of the Atlantic stirs up agitation in a certain neighbor who gets excited at the prospect of hurricane season.