Five years after Hurricane Sandy hit Martha’s Vineyard in 2012, certain parts of the Island are still recovering.

The Bradley Memorial, the first African American church on the Vineyard, was demolished last week.

Those angels, you know, they are crafty buggers. Appearing in all sorts of disguise.

How decisions are made about our hospital, how it responds to our health needs and how it communicates with Island residents are topics of conversation.

October, 1960: It was a time of optimism. (How quaint, but how refreshing.) It was a time when change actually looked like it was going to happen — and not for the worse.

Shallow draft, a whisker between her keel and sandy flat, Softly she slides over a thousand, steamer holes, Eel grass tickles the sweet, clear grain, shaped to steer and keep this cat on course.