I started on Friday night with the Chicken Alley fashion show. Nonna has forbidden me to bring anything else home. Don’t tell her there is an orange leather winter coat hidden in the boot of my truck.

Come dusk tonight, the Victorian gingerbread houses at the Camp Ground in Oak Bluffs will be a magical fantasy land, aglow with light from lanterns.

The sun is shining, the sky is blue, the breeze is just enough and it is cool enough to stand outside for more than five minutes. It has been just lovely!

Chilmark is surviving the usual August crush as always. It is about time someone tried to explain the sunset madness that seems to affect a large number of people on nice evenings at the shore.

I have not received one mosquito bite. While that fact is great, it is a little odd for a person who spends more than 12 hours out of doors each day.

The 2014 inventory found there were 119 active osprey nests on the Island. If I did my math correctly, we had 63 successful nests.

Being dramatic is warranted in the case of monarch butterflies whose numbers have plummeted over the last few years.

Longtime Island investment advisors Ray LaPorte and Ted Desrosiers will join the Martha’s Vineyard Financial Group at the end of September, bringing their clients with them, Martha’s Vineyard Savings Bank president and chief executive officer Paul Falvey announced.

Come October, those hankering for a turkey gobbler or a tree hugger will be directed to the Edgartown Triangle where Humphreys will join sister shop Dippin’ Donuts. High rent forced the move, said owner Mike Diaz.

Original art quilts and handmade crafts from Haiti will fill the Grange Hall in West Tisbury on Monday, August 25.