A future plan to expand the boundaries of the Edgartown historic district saw general support at a public hearing this week.

The Home and Garden Television dream home in Edgartown has new owners this week ­— and they did not have to enter a sweepstakes to get the keys. Rosemary O’Brien and Eigil D. Rothe of Washington D.C. bought the house at 15 Crocker Drive on July 8 for $2,315,000.

The Vineyard is a place of rejuvenation and inspiration for actress Amy Brenneman and director Brad Silberling. “It becomes this very creative place where the stakes are artistically high and financially low for me to just mess around,” Ms. Brenneman said.

More than 200 community members gathered together for an interfaith service at Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs on Sunday that reflected on and remembered the nine members of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. who were killed on June 17.

This summer on the Island, many of the college students who are taking orders, collecting eggs and folding T-shirts hail from much farther away than mainland, USA. Eastern European college students are increasingly seen filling the summer employment ranks, thanks to programs that sponsor foreign students for J-1 Visas.

Plunging into shark-filled waters may sound like a nightmare, but for Chilmark summer residents Adam Geiger and Colette Beaudry, it’s just another day of work. The husband and wife film producing team's latest project, Sharks of the Shadowland, will premiere on Discovery’s Shark Week Friday night.