Great-grand-daughter of a Vineyard whaling captain, daughter of a West Tisbury poet and a New Jersey educator renowned for his Island linoleum block prints, longtime West Tisbury bed and breakfast proprietor, mystery book writer and writing teacher, Cynthia Riggs has now written not only of her Vineyard years but of much more.

They had an old-fashioned hearth-warming party at Tom’s Neck farm on Chappaquiddick on Sunday afternoon. It was a gathering of relatives and old Island friends. They lit a fire.

Complete Package LLC purchased 25 Old Farm Road in Chilmark from Hallett Lane LLC for $3,473,000 on June 21.

Beach BeFrienders has met monthly since its inception, gathering to clean different beaches with a rotating group of volunteers. This year’s summer season begins Saturday, June 29 in Aquinnah where from 8 to 10 a.m. volunteers will head out to Philbin, Lobsterville and Moshup’s Beach.

After working outdoors all day Monday, I officially hate summer. I will say I have an incredible amount of empathy for my fellow humans world-wide. At least at the end of the day I can climb into an air-conditioned truck and go home to a somewhat cool house.

There was no reason to be ticked off by the black creature crawling among my foraged food. At first glance, it appeared to be a tick.

A fork-tailed flycatcher is not supposed to be here, as their northernmost population is in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico.

Chabad on the Vineyard returns this summer with a full slate of events tailored toward the Island’s seasonal Jewish community, including the July 22 Jewish Culture Festival.

The present always holds a little something of the past, but nothing stays the same.

Autumn and winter wipe away summer’s harvest as the year’s crops bear their fruit then wither. New calves are born and grown steer slaughtered.

Dining out with a group can be daunting. Luckily, there's Nomans, where the menu and the atmosphere will please everyone, and you can even rent a "rum hut" for a group.