Lynn Murphy, a longtime Chilmark resident and salty Menemsha character who helped inspire the character Quint in Jaws, died at home Thursday morning.

A Plastic Ocean, a documentary film showing at the film center Jan. 19, shows plastic waste in the ocean is not just an Island problem.

Documentary filmmaker and West Tisbury resident Angela Andersen recently screened her latest documentary, Brave New World, in Chilmark.

Selectmen will commission a report on how much it would cost to bring the crumbling, 101-year-old Island Theatre into a safe state.

A board of survey convened to assess the Island Theatre has determined that the building is dangerous, granting the Oak Bluffs building inspector license to order its demolition.

Sixteen years ago filming began on The Mistover Tale, set on off-season Martha’s Vineyard in the late 1970s. On Saturday the film will finally have its Island premiere.