For months there has been an air of inevitability in Oak Bluffs about John Rose’s eventual departure as chief of the town fire and ambulance department.

What a difference thirty-five years makes.

Inhabiting Chappaquiddick for the month of January, at the southern end of the island near Wasque Point, is a study in solitude.

Universal Love is the new story collection by Alexander Weinstein, the director of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing.

Last Friday night the middle school basketball championships took place at the regional high school gym.