We’re happy to report that Baby Cakes, the two-year-old, medium-hair, female tabby cat’s adoption has been finalized. Good luck to you in your new family.

What is a “weak freak”? Sounds like someone you wouldn’t want to hang with.

The popular Cottagers Annual House Tour, which had taken a sabbatical due to the pandemic, is back and enchanting as ever. This year’s event takes place on Thursday, July 18 (rain or shine) from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Tomorrow night's first quarter moon appears in the zodiacal constellation Virgo, close to the right star Spica. Spica is one of the brightest stars of late spring and early summer. Use the moon to much valued celestial object. Spica is so large compared to our sun and voluminous too. The star is really two stars, one seven times bigger than our sun and the other is four times.

Their brilliance, hard to imagine, is 12,000 times brighter than our sun. The star is 250 light years away, one of the farthest bright stars in our sky.

Once the new buses are purchased, 87 per cent of the VTA’s overall fleet will be electric.

In Edgartown, there are new kids on the dock.

On the night of July 2, four yard signs, prepared by the Keep Democracy Alive (KDA) Alliance, were taken from a 150-foot frontage shared with my neighbor along North Road.

Over the Fourth of July weekend, my daughter called me with a panic and urgency in the tone of her voice.

It is with a heavy heart that we heard news of the death of Gus Ben David

Sarah Kuh recently retired as director of the Vineyard Health Care Access Program.