The Chilmark Road Race marks its 42nd year on Saturday — much-loved annual tradition in the run for the lobster.

The annual Chilmark Backyard Bash was celebrated with poignancy, as retiring fire chief David Norton took the stage to formally pass the torch to Jeremy Bradshaw.

The Vineyard community gathered at the Davies residence in Chilmark last week for the ninth annual Stars+Stripes festival, a fundraiser to support the YMCA.

For four years Barney Zeitz has been working on a series of stained glass windows for a church in Germany that was once a synagogue. In two weeks, the last windows head overseas.

Over 60 artists hung their paintings, photographs, illustrations, collages and mixed-media along the metal fence encircling the Tabernacle for the 61st annual All-Island Art Show on Monday.

Dutcher Dock in Menemsha Harbor was flooded with visitors Thursday evening for an opportunity to catch a glimpse inside the Island’s commercial fishing industry in the fifth annual Meet the Fleet event.