The latest plan by Stop & Shop to expand and renovate its Edgartown supermarket has arrived at the Martha’s Vineyard Commission, which plans to begin a review next month.

Journalists will discuss the unprecedented challenges of reporting on the presidency as well as the latest news from Washington to open this year’s Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival.

Katama General Store reopened around noon Thursday, welcoming a rush of eager shoppers searching for picnic food or stopping by to see the results of an eight-month remodel.

Five babies in five months for four Oak Bluffs police officers and one state trooper. “I guess the stars aligned,” said Officer James Hagerty.

The 13th annual Della Hardman Day, which honors the memory of the Oak Bluffs resident, will take place July 29 in Ocean Park.

In pre-production stage for Automatic At Sea, writer/director Matthew Lessner saw a woman walking a dog along a Vineyard beach and was rendered speechless.