Three planets hover close together with a bright star in our western sky this weekend. Venus, the brightest, appears in the middle between red Mars on the viewer's left and Mercury on the extreme right. The fairly bright star Regulus appears right above Venus. As close as they appear to each other, their distance from us is extreme.

Venus is the closest at only 33 million miles away. No celestial object other than the moon gets close.

Mercury is 108 million miles away and Mars is a distant 213 million miles away.

The Steamship Authority board voted 3-1 Tuesday to approve the 2024 schedule, which included the controversial 5:30 a.m. freight boat from Woods Hole.

Caroline Harris and Ryan Gussen are the new faces behind Yommi, and they’re working ‘round the clock to keep you supplied with frozen superfood bars this summer.

An Interview with Steve Capers

August is book month on the Vineyard. What will you be reading? Our resident book aficionados have some recommendations.

Wiet Bacheller has been named the inaugural winner of the Art Buchwald Award for outstanding community service.

Not that we don’t love our fair, but The Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society has a bigger mission – and new programming – to help both farmers and home 
gardeners to get growing.

Brazilian trio Choro das 3’s first Island concert since 2019 filled every seat at the West Tisbury Library Saturday and had more people listening from the doorway.

Seven diagonal spaces on North Road between the Galley and Menemsha Market are changing to three parallel spaces.

The nonprofit, which has been providing medical flights for Islanders in need of critical care for decades, introduced its new Cessna Citation CJ4 airplane last month and it has already made six flights to the Vineyard.