The wait is finally over as the Sharks return next week to begin their run for back-to-back titles. The team makes its 2023 home debut on Monday, June 5 in a pre-season game, then officially gets underway with home games on Wednesday and Thursday.

Longtime basketball coach Mike Joyce is now also the coach for the girls club golf team. Later this year, he will apply to register girls golf as a varsity sport at the high school.

As per tradition, the Vineyard began its Memorial Day traditions on Friday led by the youngest members of the community, leaving their elementary schools to walk down to the various harbors and toss bouquets of flowers into the sea.

Visual artist Paige Taylor likes to do things unconventionally.

Earlier this year Emily deBettencourt was named Oak Bluffs harbormaster, taking over for Todd Alexender who retired. Ms. deBettencourt started working on the harbor in high school.

After three years of skyrocketing demand, the Vineyard summer home rental market is coming back down to earth.

As a physician assistant in the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital emergency room, Aubrey Stimola Ryan is versatile — able to understand a variety of medical fields and collaborate with doctors of all specialties.

Stephanie Pacheco has been named the executive director of dance and performing arts organization The Yard.

The Renaissance House in Oak Bluffs is offering scholarships to Island and Falmouth-based writers and artists for its upcoming summer residential artists retreat.