We are happy to report that Australian cattle dog puppy, Ella, has found her forever family.

Nancy Kohlberg died peacefully on August 25 at her home in Edgartown, surrounded by family. She had been a modest but powerful force in a variety of causes from sustainable agriculture to environmental protection on Martha’s Vineyard.

A professional fisherman of five decades, Tom Turner has also run one of the Island’s only sawmills for the last 15 years. During that time, he has processed nearly every kind of tree that grows here, native and not, common and exotic.

Beach Road Weekend opened Thursday evening with a Jaws screening, and then switched over to three days and nights of music that saw more than 30 acts travel to the Island to play back-to-back sets on two stages.

Despite lower infection rates and fewer severe cases, the Covid pandemic has remained a thorn in the side of Island organizers.