The importance of women’s leadership, support and empowerment inspired Deborah Grant to start her annual Dining With Deb event on the Island.

Democrats and Republicans will be able to weigh in on several races starting on Saturday, when all six towns open for early voting for the Sept. 3 primary. Early voting will then be open through August 30.

A quick review: “Unblocking is the process of playing a higher card to establish enough entries to make the necessary tricks. It sometimes can involve playing a high card in one hand so tricks can be taken in the other hand.” — Google

The history of the Young Women’s Christian Association is presented in a new exhibit at the Carnegie Heritage Center in Edgartown, as part of the YWCA’s 165th anniversary celebration.

Colleagues remembered Julie Harris as a sweet soul who was dedicated to nurturing women business leaders.

A portion of the Oak Bluffs fireworks was cut short Friday after strong winds coming off the water resulted in burning embers falling into the nearby crowd.

Petey Berndt’s standard greeting when a customer walks into Coop de Ville is not “How many?” It’s “How have you been?”

The full moon on Monday will be big and close And you'll see it rising in the eastern sky right after sunset. We call this moon the Sailor's Moon, the one moon in August that gets plenty of attention. In other places the moon is called The Sturgeon Moon, but we have seldom seen this endangered fish that once proliferated the East Coast and other places. It has also been called the Dog Moon.

There will be a screening of the documentary short, My Father’s Name directed by Susanna Styron, at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center on August 18 at 7:30 p.m.

On Thursday, when the 162nd Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Fair opened at 10 a.m., people streamed through the gates, admiring livestock, pets and poultry of all sizes, enjoying rides, and sipping pickle lemonade.