Ms. Blake cut a colorful figure in Edgartown society for decades and famously documented the filming of the movie Jaws on Martha’s Vineyard in the summer of 1974.

In a garage-top office near the Tisbury School, as a small group of tradesmen prepared their morning coffee, Alan P. Fortes reflected on a lifetime in the plumbing business.

Jessie Benton, daughter of renowned artist Thomas Hart Benton, died surrounded by family in Los Angeles on Feb. 16, at the age of 83. She had been a seasonal resident of Chilmark all her life.

A first of its kind Lyme disease vaccine trial ran into a road block last weekend as the developers announced they had discontinued the study for about half of the thousands of participants in the U.S. — including those on Martha’s Vineyard.

At the first meeting of the new mending club at the Edgartown Library, exhibit A was a pair of ripped denim pants, torn and paint stained.

Rev. Mark Winters preached his first sermon Sunday as the newly settled pastor of the Federated Church of Martha's Vineyard. The sermon, titled Seeing Jesus Differently, reflected on the story of Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount.