For Sarah Rivers, who has lived on Martha’s Vineyard her entire life, the abundance of options here for wedding venues makes the Island a special place. The one thing Ms. Rivers always knew, though, was that her wedding day would take place at a site where she and her husband could always return to remember the special day.

One evening in the library of the University of California at Berkeley, Libby Ellis turned to her study partner and announced she was moving to Martha’s Vineyard.

She would not be going to the next morning’s seminar and continuing her master’s in economic geography, she told him. Instead, she was moving to the Vineyard to start her own illustration studio. This was during the winter of 2012. When she arrived on the Island, Ms. Ellis found a job digging holes and landscaping for Michael Donaroma, her study partner’s college roommate.

Krishana Collins is sculpting bouquets in her flower studio. She wears knee-high, green rain boots and moves quickly down a row of three wooden tables standing end to end. Her face is set in a serious expression but she smiles easily, scrunching her nose and shaking her brown curls. She holds up a black knight scabiosa and looks down at the dark burgundy petals.

After the boys of summer leave, the men of fall arrive.

They trickled into practice at the Vineyard Baseball Park on a recent Monday afternoon, most arriving by 5:30 p.m. and some showing up later. Just about everyone comes from their day jobs, which range from electrician to tennis pro, shellfish constable to store owner. But when the Vineyard Dogfish hit the diamond, it’s all about baseball.

A retired Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School teacher was arraigned Friday on charges that he allegedly sexually assaulted a former student.

Wendell Leo Frame Jr., 65, was arraigned on two counts of indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or older. Bail was set at $500, and Mr. Frame was ordered not to have any contact with the alleged victim or any female younger than 18 and to stay away from all Island schools.

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With storm season on the way and East Chop Drive in a compromised state, the town of Oak Bluffs is considering whether to close the scenic roadway.

At a meeting nearly two weeks ago, the East Chop Association voted to recommend that the road be closed between Brewster and Munroe avenues.

While some herald September’s quieter streets and diminishing crowds, Eugene (Geno) Courtney said the end of the season makes him blue.

“It’ll start winding down,” he said Wednesday, sitting on the South Summer street bench that doubles as his front office. “Come Labor Day, with the sudden drop, I get a little sad, a little bit depressed. I haven’t gotten used to it."

Radio station WMVY officially went on the air 30 years ago. Though block programming and automation had existed on the signal for some time, 1983 was the year that “we basically signed on as WMVY in the format of mixing rock and blues and folk rock,” director of worldwide programming Barbara Dacey said this week.

The Tisbury Great Pond has had its nitrogen health checkup and is in good shape, especially compared with other Island ponds.

This was the conclusion of the final Massachusetts Estuaries Study report for the pond, presented this week to Chilmark and West Tisbury selectmen, town planners and residents.