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.

Selectmen voted Wednesday to call a special town meeting for Oct. 6 at 4 p.m. in the Oak Bluffs Tabernacle, where the annual town meeting took place in June.

In an about face by the Tisbury selectmen, Elio Silva’s Vineyard Grocer is fully licensed to sell food prepared on the premises, following a quick and unanimous vote Tuesday.

The Tisbury School building committee agreed this week on a conceptual design for a school addition that puts the gymnasium at parking level to provide easier access for town residents.

The lawn outside the former Chilmark Chocolates was the liveliest spot in town on Saturday, as customers flocked to a pop-up yard sale benefiting the Vineyard Independence Partnership.