The seventh grade boys basketball team capped a 20-2 season with a second place finish at the state tournament.

Flags flew at half-staff this week as Menemsha businesses honored Everett Poole who died on Monday.

Everett Poole, a man of few but essential words who personified a way of life on the Menemsha waterfront, died Monday, Feb. 21 at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. He was 91.

Luanne Johnson’s to-do list runs to the wild side: study otter scat, track owls by moonlight. Last week the founder, director and biologist for BiodiversityWorks was in Aquinnah.

For a big man, Steve Myrick did not loom. Instead, he listened.

Longtime Edgartown Golf Club manager Mark Hess has written a new book as an homage to his place of employment, You Don't Have a Prayer .

On the first and third Saturdays of each month, Good Shepherd Parish becomes a community staging ground as volunteers fill boxes of food for Islanders in need.

On Dec. 31, Jim Reynolds will retire after a legal career of 45 years, all of it taking place on the Vineyard, a place he had never even visited until he came for an interview.

On Sunday evening, at the season-end football banquet, Don Herman announced his retirement after 32 years coaching football at the regional high school. It was the second time for the longtime coach to retire.

As the holiday season rolls in, and the emails are inundated with online shoppers pitching woo, there is always the local scene to consider.