Last weekend’s events were largely kept under wraps. If asked, attendees donning name tags and color-coded wristbands were told to say they were gathering for a family reunion. It was, in some ways, true.

The Martha's Vineyard Hebrew Center and Chabad on the Vineyard will hold public services for the Jewish High Holidays.

Beneath the Gay Head Lighthouse Sunday, Islanders celebrated the life of late Aquinnah resident Len Butler, known to many as “the man who moved the lighthouse.”

Police arrested a man on drunken driving charges this weekend after he allegedly drove through a pedestrian-only neighborhood in the Camp Ground, damaging porches of two iconic Oak Bluffs gingerbread cottages and other property.

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.