The storm that slammed the Island in early November cancelled ferry trips and eroded beaches on Chappaquiddick. It also unearthed a mystery.

Pieces of what appears to be a 19th-century shipwreck were exposed on East Beach at Cape Pogue.

On any Saturday morning in the spring and fall, the West Tisbury school fields are filled with kids playing soccer.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $371,910 for the business week ending on Friday, Nov. 7, 2014.

With many of the fall sports concluding last week, there was much space left for the remaining two teams to shine.

Naches Heights in the Yakima Valley is just east of the Cascade Mountains, the part of Washington state where the lush green of the mountains gives way to a more barren, arid landscape.

On Halloween morning, Carol Magee, the executive director of the Vineyard Open Land Foundation, gave me my first lesson in cranberry sorting.

Everyone who walks through South Water street in Edgartown is in some sense a beneficiary of Capt. Thomas Milton, for it was he who, considerably more than a hundred years ago, brought home and planted the pagoda tree.

It was very nice to read Tom Rancich’s story in the Vineyard Gazette of Nov. 7 about how he came to the Island and his military career.

On Friday, Nov. 7, the Edgartown Council on Aging, also known as the Anchors, held a volunteer recognition luncheon to thank and acknowledge all who have volunteered their valuable time, efforts and skills to Anchors programs, events and projects over the last year. The luncheon was attended by 60 of the 64 volunteers who donated and contributed a total of 2,200 volunteer hours in the last year, which is the equivalent in dollar value of an additional $33,000 added to the Edgartown budget.

On Friday, Nov. 21, volunteers of the Family-to-Family Holiday Meals program will gather at the First Baptist Parish House on William street in Vineyard Haven sometime around 9 a.m.