The few miles of water between the Island and the mainland is a comfort of sorts for new Martha’s Vineyard Hospital president and chief executive officer Joe Woodin.

Newtown, a heart-wrenching documentary featuring three families who lost children in the mass shooting, their journey through grief, and the resilience of the community which gathered around them, will screen at the Chilmark Community Center on July 20 at 8 p.m.

The Edgartown selectmen this week accepted a gift of $574,000 for the town’s free public library. The donor has asked to remain anonymous. Library leaders said they were pleased and surprised.

A passel of pigs provided an adventurous Saturday evening in Aquinnah for police and residents of Lighthouse Road, who tried to corral the swine during a six-hour ordeal.

At the Vineyard Cup awards ceremony Sunday, which followed three days of spirited racing in Vineyard waters, it was Nantucketer Wendy Schmidt who took the top prize in the classic division.

After more than three years of planning, a year of construction and a fair share of financial stress, Niantic Park in Oak Bluffs will be fully open to the public within a matter of weeks.