What kind of lessons are being drawn by Tisbury school children who, two weeks before school is scheduled to start, are being told that the building they’ve occupied 180 days a year is unsafe?

The weather smiled brightly on Beach Road Weekend, but that was perhaps the only variable still in question at the start of the music festival due to the vagaries of nature.

The monarchs are back and appear to be even more plentiful this year on the Island.

The Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society Livestock Show and Fair is coming, and along with prize-winning pies, racing pigs and the skillet throw, one of the highlights is something there will be less of this year: food waste.

Hot summer days have stretched on endlessly this year, warming an ocean that just six weeks ago was chilly enough to take the breath away.

On Monday evening, two surviving students from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. and their families took part in a discussion at the Chilmark Community Center.