Tonight is the 147th Grand Illumination Night at the Oak Bluffs Camp Ground, an event steeped in tradition, fellowship and magic. Festivities begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Tabernacle with a community sing; then the Camp Ground will be lit with thousands of paper lanterns.

Rod Backus of Vineyard Haven took home the top championship at the all-Island Chappy Pong table tennis tournament Saturday.

Larsen Schuster, 17, of Simsbury, Conn., was first across finish line in the seventh annual 5K Run for Jabberwocky last Saturday.

A mandate from the federal government to reduce bandwidth on police, fire and other communication devices has left Island emergency responders struggling with spotty coverage at times this summer.

When Ebola began to blight the small west African country of Sierra Leone in June of 2014, Father Augustine Bangalie was ministering at the Good Shepherd Parish on Martha's Vineyard, where he has been a visiting priest for many years.

The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) will continue plans to build a gambling hall in Aquinnah following a tie vote in a special ballot initiative to overturn the project. The final tally was 110 to 110, well short of the required two-thirds majority.