The volume of yoga practitioners on Martha’s Vineyard is almost overwhelming, yoga teacher Mollie Doyle said this week. “We have an amazing yoga community here . . . there are nine or 10 classes practicing on a Tuesday morning, and they are all full,” she said.

“It’s kind of a yoga mecca.”

And next week, the yoga-friendly Island will be the site of even more asanas and oms than normal at the third annual Martha’s Vineyard Yoga Festival.

When the Dance Theatre of Harlem was created in 1969, its mission was straightforward: change the world through dance. Now, after an eight-year hiatus, the mission is evolving from its Civil Rights-era roots to embrace what ballet can mean today. And the evolution of this new company is beginning right here on the Vineyard. The three week-old new company has been in residence for the past two weeks at the Vineyard Arts Project and will perform this weekend.

A new contract between the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital and the Veterans Administration to allow on-Island health care for veterans is under final review, the Chilmark selectmen learned on Tuesday night.

Vineyard veterans have had no access to primary care on the Vineyard since a previous contract expired several years ago.

In a letter sent to the Chilmark selectmen on August 15 Vincent Ng, the director of the Providence Medical Center where many Island veterans have had to travel for care, reported the good news.

This weekend Feathersone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs is
holding its third annual Potters Bowl with guest curator Washington
Ledesma.

The idea behind the event is both basic and beautiful. Visitors to
the show are asked to buy a ceramic bowl for $25 and then they get a
free bowl of soup plus a roll, drink and dessert. Talk about art
literally satisyfing an inner hunger.

Music videos, movies, the Internet and the news have embedded the stereotypes of African American men as dangerous and violent in society, said the chairman and CEO of BET Networks, Debra Lee, at a forum on Friday afternoon.

With the presidential election only months away, activists throughout the country are joining forces to fight recent voter identification laws that they say threaten voting access.

11 Azalea Lane in Chilmark sold for $4,000,000 on August 10.

This letter goes out to the wonderful people who were on the Great Rock Bight beach on August 13. My husband and I are extremely lucky to have had such brave and caring people around us on that day. Greg, Wendy, Hans, Isabella, the family who gave us the life vests, the young lady who swam them out to my husband (I’m sorry I never had a chance to thank you in person) and the men who pitched in to help my husband off the beach.

I am a seasonal resident of West Chop and a rest-of-the-year resident of Manhattan. Each day on Martha’s Vineyard I bike the 20-mile loop from West Chop through the state forest near the airport and back. Until a few years ago, there was always the welcome stop at Max and Emma’s Honor Lemonade stand shortly after the youth hostel. Max and Emma have gone on to brighter and bigger doings. They were replaced by the enticing Alex’s Umbrella Water stand.

Given the controversy over the Zoia property on Quitsa Pond, it was to be expected that Ken Iscol and others would write letters taking strong exception to architect David Handlin’s op-ed article of August 10. What was not to be expected were the sharp and wholly unsubstantiated attacks on Mr. Handlin that were made in most of the letters.