The Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival begins on March 16 and runs through Sunday, March 19 with a full schedule of feature films and documentaries.

Twenty years after she founded the midwifery practice at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital and more than 40 years after beginning her nursing career, Cathy Chase has retired.

Le Patin Libre perform on skates, attacking the ice like tap dancers, tumbling like break dancers or rising on their toes with their blades digging into the surface.

A survey of more than 800 students shows underage drinking on the Vineyard is down, but marijuana use is higher than state and national averages.

The lights were low at Pathways Arts in Chilmark as musicians performed near a glowing screen on which clouds whirled dizzily above a Vineyard vista of trees and grasses that kept changing color.