The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $224,236 for the business week ending on Friday, July 5, 2013. The land bank receives its funds from a two per cent fee charged on many Vineyard real estate transactions.

Summer is heating up, and so are the Martha’s Vineyard Sharks.

With the season midpoint fast approaching, the team holds a 17-8 record and is tied for first place in the Futures Collegiate Baseball League with the Nashua Silver Knights.

Salvage plans are under way for an abandoned 36-and-a-half-foot sailboat that washed up at Norton Point beach on Friday night.

No one was aboard the Running Free, which was abandoned in the Bermuda Triangle on Mother’s Day.

Is it really the Warren House? I see in the Gazette that the Warren House is back in the news. I have to smile. The house had a sign on it, “The Captain Warren House” for as many years as I have been coming to the Vineyard.

The driver who allegedly caused a Fourth of July car accident in Edgartown will be charged with drunken driving, Edgartown police said this week, while one of his passengers, a 21-year-old New York man, was was taken to a Boston hospital with severe head injuries and later released.

Artist captures the scene at the Menemsha Bike Ferry, possibly the best job in the world.

Tisbury is throwing itself a birthday party and everyone is invited. The annual street fair, featuring face painting, a dunking booth, vendor displays and plenty of food, will take place tonight from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Established in 1971 to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the town of Tisbury, the fair is now in its 42nd year and regularly draws a crowd of thousands.

On a hot Sunday morning in Oak Bluffs, the Hon. Margaret Marshall’s words were focused on a continent and an era away: South Africa during the apartheid era, when Nelson Mandela was a source of inspiration to Ms. Marshall and so many others.

Sweeping views of the Vineyard Sound and Vineyard Haven harbor give this West Chop home its $9.3 million dollar listing price. Built in 2002 to replicate the original 1905 structure on the property, the home mixes modern and classic elements on three floors of living space. Ten-foot ceilings, oak floors, custom windows and fir doors with original glass knobs are found throughout the house. A two-story foyer with rounded walls and spiral staircase is intended to replicate the interior of a lighthouse.

With a cool, brisk breeze rippling the waters of Vineyard Haven harbor, perhaps the most surprising feature of the annual Sail Martha’s Vineyard seafood buffet and auction was the number of sailors who were not out on their boats for the evening.