For the second year in a row, legal spending is sharply up at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport, due largely to the recently-concluded lawsuit with the county over control and authority at the airport.

The girls’ tennis team last week won their division of the MIAA sectional tournament. The team plays Lynnfield Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. at Lexington High School in the state seminfinals, rescheduled due to rain.

Martha’s Vineyard Community Services has spent more than a year working on a plan in collaboration with the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital to establish a new short-term outpatient care facility to cope with the problem and provide a new option for treating substance abuse.

Cape Pogue was closed to vehicles this week as plovers and terns begin to hatch. Shorebird protection programs have been in place for decades. But this year’s closure has fueled the concerns of local fishermen who have been enjoying one of the best bluefish runs on Chappaquiddick in years.

High school class valedictorian Samantha Potter reflects on her high school years as she prepares to leave the Vineyard to attend the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colordao Springs, Colo.

The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School’s class of 2015 is made up of artists, musicians, scientists, chefs, gardeners and scholar-athletes. Their graduation ceremony takes place on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs.

Pulitzer-Prize winning historian and author David McCullough, a longtime West Tisbury resident, will be speaking at the Grange Hall in July.

A high school graduation is seen from at least three perspectives.

More than a decade ago, a landscape architect friend from Rhode Island brought us a house-warming gift when we had a cottage in Menemsha.

Editor’s note: The following speech was delivered at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School graduation Sunday.