Thirty-five years ago, radio station WMVY went on the air from a tiny suite of studios here on Martha’s Vineyard.

I grew up on Martha’s Vineyard and my father is a photographer for the Gazette who often let me tag along on assignments.

At most Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society concerts, human voices are only heard introducing the music and cheering the performances.

We’re moving into the late stages of my editor Paul Laliberte’s auctions that begin with 1NT and don’t end there.

Lieut. Commander Alexander B. Baynes of the United States Navy was awarded the degree of doctor of philosophy in applied physics from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif.

Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America for more than a decade, will be the featured speaker at the next Author Series event at the Chilmark Community Center.

Union Chapel will greet August and its congregation with the Rev. Canon Dr. Sandye A. Wilson at the pulpit.

It is beginning to feel like summer again in Aquinnah with temperatures in the 80s and hot and humid days. A thunderstorm did not even break the humidity. The lawns are greening as before the drought.

On any given afternoon, one of three sounds can be heard coming from Mitzi Pratt’s Aquinnah bookbinding studio: the dull squeak of a 19th century press, sheers clipping through paper, or the piercing bang of a weighty backing hammer.

Each week the folks at Cinema Circus show a series of short films on Wednesday evening at the Chilmark Community center.