Plans to expand the store are proceeding slowly, with the planning board hearing results of a traffic study and an update about potential complications involving a bank branch next door.

During his first visit to the Vineyard, new State Road chef Randy Rucker had something of a religious experience with a 350-pound bluefin tuna in Menemsha.

Sweet Bites Bakery opened just before Thanksgiving, and was inundated with orders for holiday cakes and pies. It was the best off-season welcome Valerio and Sonia Destefani could imagine.

A slate of commercial projects are under review by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission, including a plan for employee housing above the Lampost in Oak Bluffs, and a new hotel in Edgartown.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission launched a far-reaching inspection of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth, where a series of recent mishaps has raised alarm and triggered heightened oversight.

Town officials in Oak Bluffs may soon face decisions about the fate of the dilapidated Island Theatre, including whether to tear the building down or initiate repairs and who pays for it all.