Forty years after its release, Jaws remains a treasured part of Island history. A look back on the summer Hollywood filmmakers descended on the Island and struggled against all odds to make a realistic-looking movie about a giant shark with a taste for human flesh.

The Strand movie theatre in Oak Bluffs, shuttered since 2011, will have its grand reopening this weekend. On Friday night there will be an invitation-only event; Saturday night the Strand will open to the public with two film showings.

This year’s Art Buchwald Possible Dreams auction, which benefits Martha’s Vineyard Community Services, will be dedicated to the late author Norman Bridwell.

This Saturday, June 20, it is once again time to celebrate all things harbor related in Oak Bluffs. Harborfest 2015 has arrived, running from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Oak Bluffs harbor.

The Vineyard Committee on Hunger will hold its 38th annual bread sale this Saturday in front of the Bunch of Grapes Bookstore.

Strawberry season is here and this Saturday there are two festivals for the berry inclined.