The summer night sky is filled with sparkling, shining and barely visible colorful stars.

Brand new house and guest house on Main Street in Vineyard Haven.   Every inch of this property has been thoughtfully designed.  The gourmet kitchen features all calcutta marble and Viking appliances.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $180,580.79 for the business week ending on Friday, July 3, 2015.

Every summer they come together not just to form a team and play baseball, but also to form a family. And a functional one at that. The Sharks opened their season with a string of victories, and are currently in second place in the Futures Collegiate Baseball League.

The Fourth of July was truly glorious at the animal shelter. So many old and new friends joined our contingent to follow our float.

The Tisbury Street Fair is an annual event celebrating the town’s founding. This year Tisbury turned 344. Since the fair’s origins in 1971 to celebrate the town’s third centennial, the event has always been a time for everyone on the Island to come together for food, music and fun following the holiday festivities of the Fourth of July.

Connect to End Violence will hold its fourth annual seawall event this weekend in which men take a stand against domestic and sexual violence against women.

I have come to think of it as our Amherst connection. It began 15 or 20 years ago when our nephew Wes Dripps was a geology major at Amherst College. Craig and Betsy Dripps, Wes’s parents, became friends with one of Wes’s professors, Dr. Anna Martini, a hydrologist. She was looking for a field trip for her students, and Craig had the perfect project. Crystal Lake.

Bridge on Independence Day? Can’t think of anything more patriotic.

Do you remember these many problems before? Seems all I hear about when I speak to my friends who have returned to our storybook Island is that their phones aren’t working, their televisions are out, their Wi-Fi disappeared. I know this is an annual problem but it sounds like it spread like a disease this year. I have the solution. Go to the beach. If it’s raining and you can’t go to the beach go to one of our wonderfully refurbished movie theatres and catch a show. Like we used to do before Netflix.