Some turn lemons into lemonade. When Beekman boys, Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge found themselves unemployed with two mortgages and 80 goats to feed, they turned goat milk into gold.

On Friday, incumbent state Sen. Dan Wolf, who is seeking a third term representing the Cape and Islands, made a joint campaign appearance with Maura Healey, a first-time candidate who is running for attorney general. The candidates spoke at the Field Gallery to a crowd of about sixty people.

This July proved to be cooler than last year, with storms we thankfully missed and the season’s first hurricane. Let me say hello to all of our August visitors. The traffic has been a nightmare everywhere, more cars this year than I think I have ever seen.

Kim Blacklow is a senior partner at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton, a global law firm that employs 12,000 lawyers. She is married to Ken Blacklow and they have a son, Issac, who is nine, and have adopted a five-year-old boy from Ethiopia.

The 18-acre north shore Chilmark property was gifted to the Trustees of Reservations this summer through an estate of the Harris family. The conservation group plans to open the property to the public next year.

Morning Glory Farm introduces its second cookbook with a reading on Tuesday at the farm stand. "In this book, vegetables are the stars," said Jim Athearn.

The Martha’s Vineyard Airport Commission is working on new bylaws and an employee handbook to better codify how business is done at the Island airport. The county manager has urged the commission to make the process more open and public.

John C. Wallace of Edgartown was awarded faculty honors for the spring 2014 semester at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.

Zachary John St. Clair Martellucci, son of Stacy Nickerson-Hall, grandson of Claire Nickerson-Hall and Sonny Hall of Edgartown, graduated cum laude from New York University in May.

Although blue lights flashed at the Aquinnah police and fire station Saturday afternoon, there was no emergency. At Aquinnah's first ever public safety day, the biggest concern was whether the hamburger supply was low.