Ten years ago this month, Ann Smith was named executive director of Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs, replacing her mother, Francine Kelly, who had run the community nonprofit since 2003.

The Tisbury board of health meets Thursday to continue a discussion on whether to recommend that the town allow sports groups to rent Veterans Memorial Park this fall.

On Thursday evening about 40 fans of all ages enjoyed a socially-distanced performance by the PickPocket Bluegrass Band at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum.

The Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival returns Tuesday through Sunday, with 12 feature films from as many countries.

The Granary Gallery in West Tisbury is showing new and recent work by American Realist painter and longtime Martha’s Vineyard resident Jeanne Staples.

A minor fire at Rocco’s Pizzeria in the Tisbury Marketplace Tuesday did no damage to the building, Tisbury fire chef Greg Leland told the Gazette Wednesday morning.

The long-planned reconstruction of a half-mile stretch of Beach Road in Vineyard Haven is scheduled to begin Sept. 8, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation has announced.

On Friday, the day after Bob Dutton died, friends and family celebrated him with a virtual live reading of his three-act play, The Ivory Door.

Jennifer Smith Turner’s new novel Child Bride, a story of survival.

Wall to Wall Fun is the new show by Island artist L.A. Brown at the Old Sculpin Gallery in Edgartown.