The Vineyard Independence Partnership brings together Islanders with disabilities, family members and friends for activities on the Island.

Flor de Toloache, the all-female Mariachi band, won hundreds of new fans Saturday night.

Islanders gave earful to Steamship Authority governors and senior managers Monday at the first meeting on the Vineyard since last month’s calamitous run of ferry breakdowns and cancellations.

Separated by nearly 300 years, Vivaldi’s Beatus Vir and Eric Whitacre’s The Seal Lullaby were standouts in this year’s spring concerts by the Island Community Chorus.

An unprecedented series of equipment failures that has crippled the Steamship Authority for most of the past month was a “perfect storm” of events that could not have been foreseen, the boat line port council heard Wednesday.

The 18th Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival began with sold-out screenings of the drama Chappaquiddick and wrapped up a weekend of surprises with romantic comedy Keep the Change.