The basketball courts at Niantic Park in Oak Bluffs were closed this week amid concerns about people violating rules to prevent unsafe crowding.

Administrators presented a rolled-back, phased approach for re-opening public schools Thursday, now hoping to have students in classrooms nearly a month later than originally proposed.

Citing an uptick in Covid-19 cases, Gov. Charlie Baker announced Friday that the state would pump the brakes on its slow reopening process.

On Sunday night the gibbous moon rises late in the evening near the red planet Mars. Both are in the zodiacal constellation Pisces.

Chris Kennedy, the gatekeeper to Wasque, is retiring from the Trustees of Reservations after being on the job since 1988.

About 1,550 runners will be “running together apart” in the organization’s first-ever, pandemic-friendly virtual race.

The Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society will hold its annual August fair virtually this year in an online event the weekend of August 20.

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission did exactly what it was created to do.

At a time when most people are encountering each other with half their facial features masked, the latest portraits in Janice Frame’s Red Dancers series are exceptionally appealing.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $400,327.20 for the business week ending on Friday, July 31, 2020. The land bank receives its funds from a two per cent fee charged on many Vineyard real estate transactions.

Much of the land bank revenue last week came from the town of West Tisbury, where three transactions resulted in $131,560. Three transactions earned $99,554 in Chilmark. Three transactions earned $84,051.20 in Tisbury. Five transactions resulted in $76,802 in Edgartown. And one transaction generated $8,360 in Oak Bluffs.