This is the time of year for shearwaters. They are never common near us; generally we have to go offshore to see them.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank’s purchase of 18 acres in West Tisbury this week effectively doubled the size of its Wompesket Preserve property. The preserve is located in West Tisbury, just past the town line.

Free lunches will be provided to Island families for the sixth year in a row this season as the Island Grown Initiative summer lunch program returns from July 11 to August 19.

A single-car accident in Oak Bluffs early Wednesday morning resulted in the death of the driver and left a passenger critically injured, state police and Oak Bluffs safety officials confirmed. State police identified the driver as Micah P. Anderson, 28, of Grand Rapids, Mich.

An airy, wood-slatted mobile shelter was designed and built behind the Thimble Farm greenhouse by a team led by architects Keith Moskow and Robert Linn as part of their Studio North summer workshop.

A superior court trial that is expected to test the broad powers of the Martha’s Vineyard Commission to control development on the Island got underway early this week in Edgartown.

On Saturday, 100 years after the publication of Ulysses, the spirit of Joyce’s seminal work returned for the annual Bloomsday Celebration in West Tisbury.

State environmental officials said Wednesday that they now “strongly suspect” that avian influenza is responsible for the death of large numbers of seabirds washing up on Island shores.

From the June 25, 1965 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:

Eastville Point Beach, for those who do not know, is located right off the Lagoon Pond drawbridge on the Oak Bluffs side. This five-plus-acre waterfront on two sides property was the site of the Mary Guerin Inn back in the 1960s. It extends along the jetty the that divides Vineyard Haven and Oak Bluffs and juts into the harbor, a prime location. It is an extremely valuable piece of beach real estate. This spring it resembled an abandoned industrial park.