On a recent morning Patrick and Ted Courtney paused in their individual duties, just for a moment. The Port Hunter had opened the previous week and the next day their restaurant across the street, the Covington, would open.

The Charter School performs the Hobbit this weekend, with kindergartners though high schoolers embodying dwarves, elves, walking trees and the wizard Gandalf. Performances are at the Grange Hall on Friday and Saturday.

John Fogerty will headline Beach Road Weekend, the three-day music festival in Vineyard Haven, along with Grace Potter, Dispatch, The Original Wailers and more.

At first light on Saturday the rods begin to rumble at the annual kids' trout tournament taking place at Duarte's Pond off Lambert's Cove Road.

The Yard is bringing the heat on Friday to the Chilmark Community Center with Red Baraat.

Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson is my spirit animal. My daughter’s too. I suppose I should explain.

The Christmas cheer has subsided and now New Year’s winks at us from around the next corner with its hats and noisemakers, bubbly and midnight kisses.

Roberta Kirn finds songs wherever she goes, a wandering minstrel for music as part of her Song Exchange Project.

On Memorial Wharf in Edgartown a tower of lobster pots was gathered, built and decorated by Sandy Fisher.

Peter Simon, a man who hugged first and talked later, died at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital on Sunday, Nov. 18. The cause was cardiac arrest.