Music and cheers were heard across Edgartown on Friday afternoon as the 181st annual Fourth of July parade wound its way through town.

Oak Bluffs and Aquinnah were flooded with red, white and blue Friday morning as the two towns held their annual Fourth of July parades.

Up a the sloping hill behind the Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs, an audience of music lovers gathers each week for Musical Mondays.

Climate change and a potential solution were the topics of conversation at Stillpoint on Thursday during a discussion between filmmakers Ben Kalina and Davis Guggenheim.

The Mariposa Museum opened for the season this summer, thanks in part to new grants from the Couch Family Foundation and Slough Farm.

For the first performance of Theatre on the Blue, a new Island theatre company, founder Heather Capece turned to someone she knows well: her 17-year-old daughter Nicola (Koko). The mother-daughter duo are co-directors of the Little Women adaptation.

Union Chapel will host a discussion Thurdsay with a direct descendant of Frederick Douglass. The event is part of Douglass week, which honors the legacy of noted abolitionist.

Frederick Douglass in Massachusetts — A Conversation with the Douglass Family takes place on June 26 and features Kenneth B. Morris Jr., the great-great-great grandson of Mr. Douglass, and Dr. Noelle Trent, CEO of the Museum of African American History

This talk is organized through the Globe Lane Initiative, a US-based nonprofit organization with roots in Ireland.

Several trips aboard the Steamship’s newest ferry were cancelled this week after workers discovered a blockage in some of the vessel’s sanitation pipes. 

The Gazette checked in with Jaws fans from across the country to find out what they are most excited for.

Last day of school bells rang at elementary schools all over the Island Wednesday marking the official first day of summer vacation.