Underlying the peaceful scene at Cape Pogue Bay are an unknown number of unexploded practice bombs, dating to wartime years when the area was used for military training.

For more than thirty years on the second weekend in December, Christmas in Edgartown has been celebrated in the classic style of a small New England town.

The holiday season is upon us, the season of guilt and shame for people struggling with alcohol and drug addiction. For Vineyarders who have had enough, here are some simple directions that might help.

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission, heralded as a unique and powerful regional planning organization, often the source of controversy, celebrated a quiet 40th anniversary this year.

Vineyard Power, the Island-owned energy cooperative, is preparing to partner with a private developer in bidding for leases early next year in the federally owned wind energy area 12 nautical miles south of the Vineyard.

Developers will bid on 25-year leases on one or more of the zones at a federal auction Jan. 29.

Nora Love, who lives in Oak Bluffs returned to the United States last Thursday from her most recent International Rescue Committee challenge: setting up an Ebola treatment unit in Monrovia, Liberia. Time Magazine named Ebola fighters as its person of the year for 2014.

Following the early closure of the scalloping season in Aquinnah, town officials and shellfish biologists are trying to understand the unexpected decline in the number of adult scallops this year. The season closed Nov. 15 in response to a lack of adult scallops; a black algae was also observed growing on many of the scallop shells.

Most Fridays, Kate Warner can be found in her West Tisbury kitchen. Even in early December, the room is hot; sun streams in through tall windows and inside two knee-level ovens, bread is baking. On a recent Friday Ms. Warner wore a rainbow-striped apron when she baked three organic breads from scratch: ciabatta, multigrain and sweet potato.

Winter track has debuted this year as a brand new sport at the regional high school. The head coach for the winter track team is longtime track and cross-country coach Joe Schroeder, and the squad is fielding about 25 student-athletes for its first go-around.

I lasted six months without a truck. Now I have two. One of them seems fit for travel off the Island. The other does not.