When The Yard brings a band to Martha’s Vineyard, it’s always a spellbinding show. Friday’s appearance by Red Baraat was another musical breakthrough.

Boat line governors awarded a new maintenance contract to Senesco and scheduled a public meeting on the Vineyard for March 5 to present results of the recent assessment of operations.

The regional high school production of As You Like It is an evening of sheer, unabashed fun that nonetheless offers some serious lessons about love, loyalty and self-respect.

Marine consultants hired to review Steamship Authority operations delivered the fifth and final piece of their critique last week, detailing shortcomings in the boat line’s public communications, and won a new contract to help carry out their overall recommendations.

Featherstone Center for the Arts hosted a reception on Sunday for its new show My One and Only, which opened the season with a group show of 90 artists.

When she bought Morrice Florist in Vineyard Haven five years ago, Emily Coulter was 30 and tired of waitressing by night, caring for her two young daughters by day and seldom seeing her husband.

A small, but striking collection of Island landscapes by Warren Gaines offers a rare off-season chance to enjoy the Edgartown painter’s work.

Communicating with passengers has not been a priority for the Steamship Authority, and that needs to change, a report released Friday said.

The Glass Mendacity, presented by the Peter H. Luce Play Readers at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center Saturday afternoon, is a comic mash-up.

A key recommendation from outside marine consultants that the Steamship Authority add a chief operating officer appears to be stalled.