Chilmark selectmen met with members of two opposing community groups on Tuesday to discuss a controversial proposal to install artificial turf fields at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.

On Tuesday, Frederick Douglass came alive again as Islanders took turns reading his speech, The Meaning of the Fourth of July to the Negro, at the Edgartown church.

Jeh Johnson, a member of President Barack Obama’s cabinet, distinguished attorney and summer visitor to the Vineyard for more than five decades, took the pulpit of Union Chapel Sunday.

Norton Point was reopened Wednesday morning after a dead fin whale was towed out to sea.

Elijah Dunn-Feiner just finished seventh grade at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School. He plays Little League, basketball, likes to ski and build things. In his spare time he climbs mountains.