Guests gathered for the fifth annual Walter Cronkite awards ceremony and reception on Tuesday, beneath an ivory tent on the front lawn of Karen and David Brush’s Edgartown home.

As it has every Tuesday for the last three summers, the Dock Dance Band had brought the wharf alive with Islanders and tourists, dancing and celebrating under the glow of the moon and a few fluorescent lights.

Shortly after Arthur Bradford started volunteering at Camp Jabberwocky in 1994, he met a man who would forever change his life. His name was Ronnie Simonsen.

In 2010, Island-raised filmmaker Victoria Campbell travelled to Haiti after the 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated parts of the country.

From the Vineyard Gazette edition of August 2, 1985: It is difficult today to imagine a Vineyard which not only fed itself, but produced a substantial surplus which it exported to the mainland.

The best sports stories are the ones that toe the line of improbability — the ones that unfold in real life without direction yet seem scripted in their narrative, as though they were written for a Hollywood studio.

David McCullough Jr. had been for a long time quietly going about his business as a teacher of English at Wellesley High School in Massachusetts.

A summer tour of five Edgartown homes hosted by the Federated Church is planned for 1 p.m. on Tuesday, August 12.

Award-winning Boston composer Thomas Oboe Lee will premiere his new Piano Quintet #2 as a featured work at the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music concert on Monday, August 11.

“I’ve built a grand castle with turrets and towers. And parapets, arrow slits, keeps, and a moat. I’ve battled the seagulls and land crabs for hours; The coastline is littered with seaweed I smote.”