It was standing room only at the film center in Vineyard Haven on Friday night as Sharon Stone accepted the Global Citizen Award from Richard Paradise.

Steve McCarthy and his regional high school football team take the field Friday night under the lights, marking the first time in 28 years that someone other than Don Herman will be standing on the sidelines.

Vital child care and housing rehabilitation funds on Martha’s Vineyard may face dramatic cuts as a result of proposed changes to the state’s Community Development Block Grant program.

At 12:01 a.m., the first minute of Sunday morning, the lines will zip off reels and lures will plop softly in the water. The 71st Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby begins.

S. Bailey Norton Jr., a 10th generation Islander and widely-admired Edgartown elder who was descended from a family of fishermen, sea captains and yachtsmen, died Thursday. He was 95.

Hollywood turned back the clock Thursday at the Chappy ferry landing, as Memorial Wharf became a movie set for the upcoming film about the 1969 Chappaquiddick accident.