Earlier this week, members of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) made their way past the rolling dunes of Lobsterville Beach to a wild cranberry bog, just as they have done on the second Tuesday of October for centuries. 

At 5 a.m. on a recent morning, Noah Mayrand started up his boat and set-out from West Chop looking for false albacore.

On Monday evening, Rabbi Caryn Broitman held a service of remembrance at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center to mourn the deaths and pray for the safe return of hostages, and for peace in the region.

The Edgartown select board Monday appointed Lieut. Chris Dolby to be the acting police chief as the town searches for a replacement for Chief Bruce McNamee.

Kinship Heals has long-range plans to build a shelter in Aquinnah for victims of domestic violence. In the meantime, the organization recently rented a property in Chilmark to create a healing center.

The town is seeking to improve public access to Swimming Place Path, a nearly 350-year-old trail that connects Herring Creek Road and the Road to the Plains. The ancient way was first recorded in Edgartown records in 1675.