Some came for the rides, others the food, many spent their time with the animals, competed in tests of skill and endurance, or put their prize tomatoes on the line with ribbons and pride at stake.

In this time of summer hustle, as the harvest of high-season gardens abound, I find my mind often turning to the subject of manure.

Adam Nagler is on a journey to paddle 1,000 miles to raise money for Martha's Vineyard Community Services. His arrival in Aquinnah this week commences the last leg of his wild ride.

The commercial striped bass fishing season has ended early in Massachusetts, after the state Division of Marine Fisheries projected the annual quota for the fish was reached last week.

The approval of a new awning for the Land Bank Goats comes after a meeting last month between land bank staff, the Agricultural Society and Island animal control officers on the wellbeing of the herd.

Rapidly, at a pace of 10 feet per day, an infection of southern pine beetle is spreading in the pitch pine forest at Sheriff’s Meadow’s Phillips Preserve near Lake Tashmoo.

Gathered at their usual playing field behind the Boys and Girls Club, brandishing long wooden mallets and donning floppy cloth hats, members of the Edgartown Croquet Club faced off against their counterparts and friendly rivals from Sandwich.

The West Tisbury select board Wednesday learned that two members of the Up-Island Council on Aging board are apparently in violation of the council's bylaws. The bylaws say members can't serve more than two consecutive terms.

Though it has nutrient poor soil and its scrub oak prairies are prone to wildfires, the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest has, against all odds, flourished as a refuge of biodiversity.