League play is off to a big start at The Barn Bowl & Bistro, with a schedule that includes 95 teams competing in a men's league, a women's league, a business league, a mixed league, and a seniors’ league, to name a few.

Hy-Line Cruises and Seastreak want to expand passenger service to Martha’s Vineyard next year. Public hearings will be held.

Edgartown and Oak Bluffs police said they are investigating two Friday car thefts that appear to be related.

Aaron Watkins and Desmond Roderiques were held on $50,000 bail and face drug charges after drug task force officers arrested them as they departed a ferry. The men are scheduled for arraignment Friday on charges including trafficking in heroin and trafficking in cocaine.

The 70th annual Martha’s Vineyard Bass and Bluefish Derby is in the books. A chilly but enthusiastic crowd gathered at derby headquarters Saturday night for the final weigh-in of the tournament. The awards ceremony is Sunday.

A section of North Road was closed most of Thursday afternoon after a trailer truck struck an overhanging tree, West Tisbury police said. No one was injured in the accident.

The new Steamship Authority ferry will ply the route between Woods Hole and Oak Bluffs beginning next spring, the town selectmen learned this week.

Island activists and local lawmakers say they will keep the pressure on Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station owners to decommission the aging boiling water reactor quickly and safely, following a decision to close the plant.

Edgartown selectmen this week balked at eliminating parking and altering the traffic configuration on North Water street to accommodate lines for the Chappaquiddick ferry this winter.

Albert Oram was among a core group who pushed the progressive rock format at legendary Boston radio station WBCN.