The first 10 per cent of the profits from beer sales at Bad Martha Farmer's Brewery opening on Saturday will be donated to the Island Food Pantry — evidently not such a Bad Martha after all.

Hay is for horses . . . and sheep, goats, and cattle, too! Fields are hayed to provide food for livestock in dark and cold seasons when plants are dormant.

Making history, the bark Morgan, the last remaining wooden whaling ship, has left Newport, R.I. and is bound for the Vineyard. The ship will be visible from the north shore as she sails through Vineyard Sound. She is scheduled to arrive at Tisbury Wharf Wednesday afternoon.

Gil Traverso, principal of the Roger L. Putnam Vocational-Technical Academy in Springfield, and David Maxwell, associate principal at Valley High School in West Des Moines, Iowa, are both in the running for the top post at the regional high school.

In the early days of whaling on Martha's Vineyard, foul weather and ferocious whales were the least of a whaler's worries.

The board of health will continue a public hearing on whether to remove fluoride from town water. Board member John Campbell said he would make strong recommendations against fluoridation. Oak Bluffs is the only town on the Island that fluoridates its public water supply.

Peter Persson of Edgartown was named to the president’s list for the spring 2014 semester at Bentley University.

Edgartown shellfishermen are one step closer to farming in a new spot in Nantucket Sound, following an approval from the selectmen on Monday. The site, called the middle flats, is a 35-acre area located about a mile north of Eel Pond.

Summer begins tomorrow and the buses will be operating on their full summer schedule. It is also the official opening day for Lambert’s Cove Beach.

The green heron makes a habit of crouching as it waits for dinner, sometimes moving like a cat, placing one foot gently down and then the other.