For decades, Farm Pond in Oak Bluffs has been closed to shellfishing. But salvation may not be far off. The town has learned that it’s in the running for major federal funding to widen a culvert under Sea View avenue and restore tidal flushing to the pond.

Mike Benjamin started his musical career playing in Harvard Square and in the subways of Boston. He came to the Vineyard for a summer, planning to go to back to the city. The Vineyard-based Mike Benjamin Band is now often booked every weekend from May to October.

It’s common on the Vineyard to hear of someone couch surfing for a few weeks or struggling through a long transition between rentals, but the exact number of people without homes on the Vineyard remains elusive.

The deplorable condition of the Vineyard’s historic movie theatres and what can be done about them has occupied more than a few dinner table conversations in recent years.

The roads are more narrow now, the mountainous snowbanks swallowing acreages of asphalt all over the Island.

Meverell (Mev) Good, who served in the 10th Mountain Division in World War II, died on Feb. 9 at the age of 91.

The crescent moon appears in our western sky tonight, just above the two planets Mars and Venus.

Last spring, Ken Greene, the founder of the country’s first community seed library, came to the Vineyard to help lead a seed saving workshop.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $235,190 for the business week ending on Friday, Feb. 13, 2015.

It is interesting how we remember things. As a nutritionist, my nostalgic thoughts often turn to food. Was food and nutrition simpler back then, I wonder.