The Patriot boat line has cut its shuttle schedule in half in response to the recently-enacted construction bans on the Island.

At 5:30 in the morning on a recent Saturday, Yann Meersseman parked his minivan outside of the Steamship Authority building in Vineyard Haven and dropped a few tokens into the yellow Boston Herald display box. He pulled open the box and changed the front copy of the Herald, placing a short stack of newspapers inside the box as he did so.

Robert and Ernestine Kinnecom of Oak Bluffs spent some time this week recalling wonderful memories - memories wrapped around their Vineyard newspaper route, an early morning journey made almost every day for the past 27 years.