If you are out looking for fireworks on Thursday, July 4th evening, make sure you look up for stars. The stage is set for summer stars. The bright orange star Arcturus is nearly overhead. You know you've found it when you look up and see the Big Dipper. The handle stars in the Big Dipper point to Arcturus.

Look for Spica, the brightest star low in the southern sky. The star is the main star in the zodiacal constellation Virgo.

The lights are on at the red house perched along the edge of DH’s Hill.

Here we are one week before July 4, and we have been through July weather.

Congratulations to Fred Lowery and Tony Teat for their recent launch of the mvporch.com website.

Congratulations to Mike Colaneri for being awarded the Spirit of the Vineyard for 2024. He certainly deserves it.

Four young Island men have bought into the lobstering business in the past two years, continuing family legacies. Three are in their early 20s; one recently turned 18, graduating from the regional high school in June.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $383,860 for the business week ending on Friday, June 21, 2024.

In celebration of its 30th anniversary, the Green Room is giving back to three different Martha’s Vineyard charities.

This year’s parade begins at 5 p.m. on July 4. Marchers old and new, along with their floats, will line up in the Edgartown School parking lot earlier on Thursday, and when the bell tower strikes five, they will all proceed down a well-worn path.

Martha’s Vineyard Community Services officially renamed its early childhood center in honor of Paul and Sandra Pimentel.