High stone walls, some lengths standing taller than a very tall man’s shoulder, enclose the ancient meadow.

Trick or treat! Halloween is next Thursday, and on Martha’s Vineyard events large and small are planned around the Island for kids and adults alike.

Oak Bluffs voters will be asked to take action on some $1 million in spending requests at a special town meeting Tuesday, including one to correct a loss from a cyber scam this past August.

Julian Cyr is in a three-way race with Barnstable Republican Christopher Lauzon and Joe Van Nes, an unenrolled dark horse candidate from West Tisbury.

It is the end of October and the flip flops are still out and on. Yes, it is chilly in the morning and the temperature plummets at 3 p.m. like clockwork, but the in-between hours have been just beautiful.

When the big yellow school bus pulled up to Menemsha Beach the other day and a rather large group of young teens disembarked, the situation was clear. We’d been invaded by the British.

This Friday night come to the Chappy Community Center and listen to John O’Toole and friends from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. $10 donation at the door.

So I will buy a small bag of KitKats and place a pumpkin next to the front door, but it is unlikely that any little space aliens will come to our house on Halloween.

I do not even know why I bothered to put in my contact lenses before watching the Patriots game in the UK last Sunday...and against the Jacksonville Jaguars!

Emmalaine and Ian Murdoch Baker of New York city and Chilmark are pleased to announce the birth of a daughter, Lily Jane Baker, on Sept. 24, at Weill Cornell hospital in Manhattan. Lily is expected to make her first visit to Martha’s Vineyard for Thanksgiving.