President Obama and his family wrap up a quiet 17-day vacation on the Vineyard this weekend. The Obamas are scheduled to depart the Island sometime on Sunday after a vacation full of golf with a handful of beach and dinner outings and a lot of downtime at their vacation home in a secluded part of Chilmark.

Inaugural season for the renovated Strand and Capawock theatres in Oak Bluffs and Vineyard Haven is off to a solid start.

Students of Rosie’s Theater Kids, which connects youths from New York city with performing arts, have spent a week at Vineyard Arts Project.

The first phase of a ground-breaking project to bring the heath hen back from extinction has been successfully completed, scientists said this week. The path to bringing back the bird is getting more tangible, and scientists say the heath hen could be “the gateway bird” for avian de-extinction.

This might be controversial. I’m going to talk about the behavior of couples on boats, and some readers may find my observations offensive.