Three bench trials — including a long-running fight over a Chappaquiddick cell tower — top a busy civil docket as the Dukes County Superior Court meets for its fall sitting starting Monday.

A Zoom meeting Thursday looks at what it will take to make the shoreline of Vineyard Haven Harbor resilient over the next 50 years.

Pianist and former Island restaurateur David Crohan has donated a Mason and Hamlin grand piano to the Edgartown Library.

Tisbury selectmen meet on Zoom Wednesday with the state highway department and the contractor performing work on Beach Road.

The $13.3 million new Oak Bluffs town hall project got an enthusiastic thumbs up from the Martha’s Vineyard Commission Thursday, with members praising the design.

The World War II-era hangar at Katama Airfield was reduced to scrap on Thursday afternoon — not for the first time, but definitely for the last.

Martha’s Vineyard officially passed the 100-case count for total coronavirus patients on Friday, with Island health officials recording two new positive Covid-19 patients.

The all-Island school committee on Thursday approved a set of directives for a school-wide testing program, inching the program’s progress forward.

The historic Kelley House in Edgartown, among the oldest hotels in the country, was sold Friday to Blue Flag Partners, a Boston-based real estate private equity firm, for $19.6 million.

The red planet Mars is a spectacle rising in the eastern sky soon after sunset. A brighter Mars will not be visible until the year 2035, and for many this may be a first time to spot the planet.

Mars reaches opposition in mid-October and the show is available all month. Opposition happens about every two years, but this one is best placed for our latitude. Mars was closer two years ago but it was also close to the southern horizon.