As teachers and students prepare to start classes in September, Martha's Vineyard Public Schools new superintendent Richie Smith is sizing up the challenges ahead.

It’s show time again at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, which this weekend opens a play by Chilean author Antonio Skármeta.

The future of the Tisbury School reconstruction project rests entirely on the Sept. 20 special town meeting, after the select board on August 24 unanimously rescinded a town election that was tentatively set for Oct. 4.

A two-thirds majority at the special town meeting Sept. 20 is still required to authorize issuing the additional $26 million in bonds.

The addition of a film festival to Grange Hall activities has led some in town hall to require a new special permit for the historic facility.

Howes House in West Tisbury, home base for the Up-Island Council on Aging, would be a better place for old folks if it also served younger people, West Tisbury resident Susan Silk told the town select board on August 17.

Members of a newly formed leaseholders’ coalition want a change in Camp Meeting Association leadership and a vote in how the Camp Ground is managed. But the group is facing an uphill battle against more than a century and a half of past practice.

The embattled Tisbury School renovation and addition project took another step forward this week when work began to gut the school gym.

The Vineyard’s art galleries may be one of the best entertainment values on the Island.

Enrollment has been on the rise at the Chilmark School, which is on its way to running out of space for the private, nonprofit Chilmark Preschool that shares its campus.