Growing up in New York city, Thelonious Sphere Monk 3rd did not think of his dad as a famous jazz pianist. He was just dad.

Emily James Sturdivant and Carlos Enrique Dobler Morales were married on March 11 in Santiago de Queretaro, Mexico.

Galen and William Brown, of Vineyard Haven, announce the birth of a daughter, Lyra Lucille Brown, born on April 7 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.

Catherine Walton and Kyle Anderson, of Oak Bluffs, announce the birth of a daughter, Olivia Kish Anderson, born on April 6 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.

Voters go to the polls today in Edgartown, Oak Bluffs and West Tisbury to decide on new select board members and cast ballots on the question of whether to create a Martha’s Vineyard Housing Bank. In Oak Bluffs, one of three candidates for select board has dropped out.

Michael E. Devlin and Catherine Devlin purchased 29 Clevelandtown Road in Edgartown from Marianne Dolan for $3,455,000 on April 7.

Town meeting was still going strong when a swell of semantics, not to mention this column's long-passed deadline, finally washed me out at around 9 p.m.

We are venturing big bold steps, not baby steps.

Now that we are starting to get some warm weather, the wind has picked up a little but all the sun and blue skies have made people very happy.

Hardy New Englanders moved mountains to stand as witness alongside Andrew Ruimerman as he and Kimberlie Willard exchanged "I dos" this past weekend.