Against a backdrop of explosive population growth and traffic congestion in the summer months, a draft transportation plan released by the MVC outlines a series of goals and projects for the next quarter century on the Island.

A home in the Oyster Watcha Midlands section of Edgartown sold this week for $24.75 million, just shy of the record price for single family home sales on the Vineyard, set nine years ago. The sellers are Megan and Warren Adams.

The vast majority of respondents to a survey conducted this year by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission named the Five Corners intersection in Vineyard Haven as the most dangerous area on the Island.

Martha’s Vineyard feels awash right now in art entrepreneurs, artists who so love their craft that they can’t help themselves from creating platforms to engage and delight the wider community.

Joyce Reis and Jairo Freitas of Vineyard Haven announce the birth of a son, Jairo Diniz Freitas Junior, born on July 13 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.

A celebration of life for longtime Edgartown resident Norman Bridwell, illustrator and author of the Clifford the Big Red Dog series, will be held on Monday, July 20 from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Federated Church in Edgartown.

The summer scene is back to normal this year at Pay and Inkwell beaches following a project this spring to renourish them with tons of clean sand dredged sand from underneath the Little Bridge.

The animal shelter is the place to hear both the saddest and the happiest stories.

A future plan to expand the boundaries of the Edgartown historic district saw general support at a public hearing this week.

Saturday night an assembly of beautiful celestial objects shine low in the western sky after sunset. A thin crescent moon appears next to the planet Venus, the brightest planet in our sky. The two are a short distance away from a fainter Jupiter. The star Regulus, the principal star in the zodiacal constellation Leo, is above all three.

This is a pretty scene that changes in one night. On Sunday night, the crescent moon appears higher and farther away, to the east.