Love will be in the air at Pathways Arts in Chilmark with a pair of musical evenings this week on the theme of “romantic nostalgia.”

Head basketball coach Mike Joyce recently passed the 200-win threshold. His love for the game began at age seven when he and his buddies would bike to the Oak Bluffs courts to shoot hoops.

An early-stage plan to significantly expand the Martha’s Vineyard Airport saw backlash from Island residents at a public hearing Thursday.

Investigation into the contamination of private wells from firefighting foam remains ongoing, a consultant for the Martha’s Vineyard Airport said.

The roar of machinery and crunch of crushed vegetation were in the air at Long Point Wildlife Refuge in West Tisbury this week, marking the beginning of a pair of state-funded projects to restore rare Island sandplain grasslands.

The iconic general store will not reopen this summer due to extensive damage caused by a fire last Thursday, the building’s owner said.