As we move from summer to fall I’m reminded of how in the early spring I was contemplating transitions and change.

Oak Bluffs’ Tivoli Day takes place Saturday, Sept. 16, offering a full day of fun with a street fair highlighting local business to celebrate the end of another summer season on Martha’s Vineyard.

A plume of smoke curled against the backdrop of the rolling waves on Aquinnah’s south shore this weekend, as members of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) and native peoples from across the east coast gathered for the annual Aquinnah Powwow.

Despite a foggy morning, which promised a slow start to the 78th Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby, Kevin Seger was waiting patiently in line at 8 a.m. Sunday with a 3.46-pound bonito cementing its status as first fish of this year’s derby.

Rhonda Persip celebrated her birthday at a small party in Oak Bluffs with friends Cheryl Grimes, Carolyn Hebsgaard, Kim Washington, Caroline Hunter and a host of other friends.

Developer Reid (Sam) Dunn added fireplaces to three condominium units at his Stone Bank mixed-use property in Vineyard Haven without approval by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission, which voted Thursday to deny his after-the-fact request to keep the amenities in place.

Petar Petyoshin, who was arrested in May for allegedly stealing more than $21,000 from the Davis Straits Rockland Trust, signed a plea agreement with prosecutors earlier this summer.

Mornings offer plenty of planet watching this month. In the wee hours of Monday morning take a look towards the eastern skyline. Well before sunrise you'll see the brilliant planet Venus and not too far away a thin crescent moon. Both are in the zodiacal constellation Cancer, a constellation we associate with more often with late winter.

Photography may not be Tim DeWitt’s full-time job, but finding the perfect scene often takes up a full day for the landscape photographer.

Stephanie Pacheco finished her first summer as the new executive of The Yard last month, but she's already conjuring up plans to make the art residency program more active in the off-season.