The Martha’s Vineyard Sharks are moving on to the second round of the playoffs. After sweeping the Bristol Blues in commanding fashion, the Sharks will travel to Newport, R.I., to open the South Division Championship Series on Monday night.

A capacity crowd took their seats at Stillpoint in West Tisbury last week for Our Bodies, Not Yours — a two-hour panel discussion with four professionals at the forefront of the movement to preserve women’s reproductive rights and access to abortions.

At the opening night of the Martha's Vineyard Book Festival, Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, talked with three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer Ashley Parker about reporting on the president, Signalgate and the future of news.

Alan Dershowitz, a seasonal Chilmark resident and prominent attorney known for his controversial clients, is threatening litigation after he was denied a half dozen pierogi at the West Tisbury Farmers’ Market this week.

Since 1990, the Menemsha bike ferry has shepherded people back and forth across Menemsha harbor. It's a lifeline for many a bicyclist who otherwise would have to cycle an extra seven miles or so around Menemsha Pond.

The possibility of low-income families to make a life here has all but vanished, and, in recent years, even Islanders who make six figures have few options.