This year’s Della Hardman Day celebration takes place on July 27 in Ocean Park, beginning at 4 p.m. Dr. Clarence B. Jones, a former colleague of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, will be the featured speaker.

The Vineyard’s only homelessness prevention nonprofit is under agreement to buy 112 Dukes County avenue, where — if local and regional authorities approve — it plans to build a permanent winter shelter for up to 25 guests.

While the head of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), fishermen and many Nantucketers are calling for a complete halt to offshore wind energy construction, others maintain that the nascent industry is essential in the fight against climate change. 

A new support group on the Island hopes to offer community and medical support to the growing population of Islanders diagnosed with alpha-gal syndrome, a tick-borne allergy that leaves people unable to digest red meat.

For Bethany Lynn Williams, Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Legacy Week on the Vineyard is the sweetest time of the year.

This year’s theme of the second annual Womanists at the Inkwell conference is Just a Sister Away: Cultivating and Celebrating Sister Circles.