The American golden plover was hunted on the Vineyard and elsewhere in the 1800s.

At an open house last week, leaders at the Island's only residential facility for recovery from addiction showcased the new modular Vineyard Haven complex. The $3 million project is due to be completed by the end of the year.

Tighter conservation measures for striped bass are on the table for discussion this month. A weeklong series of public hearings in Massachusetts begins today on Nantucket on a plan to lower catch limits for recreational and commercial fishermen next year.

Classic vintage automobiles, custom trucks and and polished hot rods lined Main street on Sunday for the Tisbury Firefighter Association’s Annual Car Show. The show is in its eighth year and raises money for the fallen firefighter fund.

Stories of the distant past came to life during archaeology ID day at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum. Whale bones and arrowheads were among the treasures brought in by people from around the Island.

Esteban Aranzabe will take over as head coach for the boys team this fall, while the girls team will be led by Rocco Bellebuono. Both men are well known as longtime coaches and leaders in the Island youth soccer program.

Facing an unforeseen deadline for spending a major state grant, a town committee has stepped up the pace in the effort to restore Squibnocket Beach. The issue has been marked by intense environmental study and also politics.

A wide-ranging air and sea search for the owner of a 13-foot Hobie Cat was called off late Saturday after the boat owner called the Coast Guard to identify himself. The unmarked sailboat was found washed ashore with its sails up near Lake Tashmoo on Friday.

Two planets and the moon will form a triangle in the southwestern sky on Sunday night. Watch as Mars and Saturn, which are already close together, are joined by the thin crescent moon. The three are in the zodiacal constellation Scorpius.

If you miss this event, you get a less interesting version of it on Tuesday night. By then, the moon will have advanced along the zodiac and be farther away. The triangle will then be far more elongated.

Mars is the reddish planet, east of the yellowish Saturn.

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