Dick Lehr began covering Boston mob boss James (Whitey) Bulger in 1988, and later coauthored a book about Whitey. This week he saw the work transformed into a major motion picture.

A proposal to allow beer and wine sales at restaurants in Chilmark came under fire at a selectmen’s meeting on Tuesday. Several longtime residents gathered to speak out against the idea.

On Thursday, Sept. 24, Black Uhuru plays the Vineyard, for the first time ever.

Judy Flynn Palmer recently published a book telling of the summers she and her sister and their cousins spent at the family farm.

Mezzo-soprano Lia Kahler performs on Sunday, Sept. 20, at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown as a benefit for homelessness and veterans.

This August, the first bottles from Rob Hale's Martha’s Vineyard Cider Co. were delivered to Island restaurants. The inaugural cider is called Hard A Lee, named after a wooden boat that has been in the Hale family, which owns the Martha’s Vineyard Shipyard, for more than 90 years.