I am smitten this summer with hummingbirds. Well, with two of them.

We have had some relief from the heat, but I am sitting here listening to the glorious rain.

An action packed August is waiting in the wings.

The Chappaquiddick Island Association annual meeting is this coming Saturday, August 3 at 9 a.m. at the Chappy Community Center.

She has dreamed of this moment.

Chef Ting is moving into the former Bombay Indian Cuisine in Oak Bluffs with plans to expand her catering business and help strengthen the Black cooking community on Martha's Vineyard.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer visited the Island over the weekend to promote her new memoir, True Gretch.

On Sunday evening, the Martha's Vineyard Film Center screened Screams Before Silence, a documentary featuring eyewitness accounts of sexual violence by Hamas fighters against Israeli civilians on October 7.

Caroline McLane and Elliot Bilzerian, of Oak Bluffs, annouce the birth of a son, Prescott Bilzerian, born on July 26 at the Martha's Vineyard Hospital. Prescott weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces at birth.

Hannah Burbidge and Brent Turner, of Oak Bluffs, annouce the birth of a daughter, Rayna Catherine Burbidge-Turner, born on July 25 at the Martha's Vineyard Hospital. Rayna weighed 6 pounds, 13 ounces at birth.