Senior managers at the Steamship Authority confirmed this week what many people already knew: there are substantially more cars and people coming to Martha’s Vineyard this summer.

A 67-foot steel-hulled fishing trawler went aground in Woods Hole passage late Monday morning. No injuries were reported after the vessel, named Hope & Sydney, struck Middle Ledge.

A diverse group of more than 90 people marched from Vineyard Haven to Oak Bluffs Saturday in a peaceful protest to call attention to recent deaths of African American men.

The children’s playground at Niantic Park is now open after a major renovation.

Union Chapel was packed for Henry Louis (Skip) Gates Jr.'s film about African Americans over the past five decades. His talk later was part college lecture, part humorous observation, part nostalgic Vineyard experience.