Next week David Sedaris returns for his third summer performing on Martha’s Vineyard. He's a big fan of the Island, but says he could never spend his summers here. “It’s just too much of a good thing,” he said in a recent interview.

Next week David Sedaris returns for his third summer performing on Martha’s Vineyard. He's a big fan of the Island, but says he could never spend his summers here. “It’s just too much of a good thing,” he said in a recent interview.

As a sunset faded over Menemsha, a crowd of beachgoers settled into the sand for short films about the local shellfishing industry and the perils of overdevelopment on the Cape and Islands.

In light of gun violence around the country, the Chilmark selectmen Tuesday offered words of gratitude to their town police force, most of which gathered shoulder-to-shoulder in the town hall meeting room.

Senior managers at the Steamship Authority confirmed this week what many people already knew: there are substantially more cars and people coming to Martha’s Vineyard this summer.