Some wore high heels, some wore cutoffs and others arrived in their bathing suits for the first Dock Dance of the season Tuesday night.

This year’s parade begins at 5 p.m. on July 4. Marchers old and new, along with their floats, will line up in the Edgartown School parking lot earlier on Thursday, and when the bell tower strikes five, they will all proceed down a well-worn path.

Martha’s Vineyard Community Services officially renamed its early childhood center in honor of Paul and Sandra Pimentel.

Vineyarder Catey Best came home to grow a beautiful life at Takemmy Farm.

On Tuesday night, nonprofit leaders from all over the Island gathered to celebrate the Martha’s Vineyard Nonprofit Collaborative’s 20th anniversary, and Gerald Jones, who has long served as board chair of the organization.

Juneteenth became a federal holiday just a few years ago, on June 19, 2021, and ever since events around the Island to commemorate the day have grown.

This week Sam Permar wrapped filming on his original short film, Tick, a dark satire of the Island’s tick-borne illness epidemic. His sister Tessa was by his side as producer, choreographer and nearly everything else.

This Sunday, the Katharine Cornell Theatre will be vibrating with rap, hardcore and more from three rising Vineyard musical acts.

When noon struck on Tuesday, school bells rang at elementary schools all over the Island announcing that summer vacation had officially begun.

Filmmaker and former full-time Islander Barry Rosenthal returned to the Vineyard Sunday for a screening at the Film Center of his feature-length documentary, The Jewish Jail Lady and the Holy Thief.