While Edgartown, Menemsha and nearby Cuttyhunk harbors have experienced average business so far this summer, Vineyard Haven and Oak Bluffs harbors are tentatively reporting their busiest - and most lucrative - boating seasons ever.

"The beginning of August was the busiest I've ever seen the harbor. It was absolutely crazy," Oak Bluffs harbor master Todd Alexander said. "I think the whole Island was busier."

Study Released by Youth Task Force Shows Drinking Remains Prevalent, but Fewer Teens Smoke Cigarettes

Survey results released this week about risky behavior among Island middle school and high school students reveal few surprises about drug and alcohol use.

First, start somewhere familiar. Chopping parsley in the kitchen. Listening to headphones on 44th street. Observing three-year-olds throw insults like Big Sewerface at a birthday party.

Then, follow a trail of crumbs into the woods. Better yet, find a rabbit hole and jump down it. Or pull the candle stick on the mantle in the haunted house and slip through the bookcase when it swivels around. Enter the less familiar, somewhat weird, darkly funny, sometimes frightening.

Reports of its addictiveness have come all the way from the other side of the globe - people who used up the stash they got from their friends or relatives on the Island as a gift, and who need a refill, fast.

It's been 34 years since the landmark court case that stamped out most state and federal laws banning or restricting abortion.

But a few of New England's highly regarded women's rights activists, who gathered in the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown for a panel discussion on Wednesday night, told the audience that Roe v. Wade may not live to see 34 more years.