Beginning with the arrival of the Amistad into Vineyard Haven harbor Thursday through a gospel brunch in Edgartown on Monday, the Vineyard celebrated Juneteenth with joy and reverence.

Registration is now open for Built on Stilts, the Vineyard's homegrown community dance and performance festival.

Under a grand tent on the lawn of Edgartown’s Dr. Daniel Fisher House, Vineyarders feasted on cuisine from the Island’s popular eateries Thursday evening at the 37th annual Taste of the Vineyard.

Charles Uchendu will spend the next two weeks working with Canadian firefighters to suppress the more than 100 fires that have been ravaging forests in the province since early this month.

This week, the West Tisbury board presented a new prospective breakdown for the Howes House renovation, with 60 per cent of the project being paid for by West Tisbury, 30 per cent by Chilmark and 10 per cent by Aquinnah.

At the Oak Bluffs select board meeting this week, town administrator Deborah Potter reported there will be a state government hearing on Tuesday, June 20, about an act to ban moped rentals in Oak Bluffs.

On Tuesday, Tricia Bergeron won the 2023 Heritage Day of Portugal Award, one of 18 honorees across the state.

Los Angeles-based science teacher Troy Lawson will take over as executive director of the Chilmark Community Center summer camp program.

The night of summer solstice could be memorable for those who have clear skie. If you take the time after sunset look towards the west for two planets and a thin crescent moon hugging close to the horizon. Venus is the brightest of the two planets, a treasure and alone a memory. But when the sky gets dark enough look for the ruby red planet Mars nearby. The two planets and the crescent moon form a tight triangle. The three are in the zodiacal constellations Cancer and Leo.

A U.S. Coast Guard aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport Thursday, after one of the plane’s engines malfunctioned during a routine drill four miles off the coast of the Island.