Valedictorian Sarah Ortlip-Sommers was editor of the school newspaper and took more AP classes in a year than most take in four. She calls her violin an extension of herself and credits her parents Michele Ortlip and Josh Summers for her achievements.

Aviation-themed fundraisers held this weekend raised around $17,000 for the Vineyard Montessori School.

By many accounts the wedding business is booming on the Vineyard this year, with caterers, hotels and inns, florists and others who work in this growing cottage industry reporting they are busier than ever.

The yoga-inspired apparel chain will test the Island retail market this summer with a four-month pop-up store on South Summer street in Edgartown.

Justin Melnick doesn’t care much for blenders. He likes to mix pasta dough with a fork, crushes tomatoes by hand, bursting them like little stress balls, and spends three days creating tagliatelle Bolognese.

“It’s a real labor of love,” he said the other night inside the Terrace at the Charlotte Inn, where he has run the kitchen as executive chef since November 2012.