High seas and gusting winds over the weekend prevented the safe removal of a 71-foot fishing boat that washed onto Norton Point Beach Saturday morning.

When the Vineyard Haven Band plays in Ocean Park, the musicians hope no one arrives late and that nature does not call during the performance - because once the trapdoor goes down in the bandstand, there is no way in or out.

Art Buchwald, the writer whose hospice stay turned into a lease on life, returned Saturday afternoon to his beloved Martha's Vineyard.

Mr. Buchwald arrived at Martha's Vineyard Airport at 12:30 p.m. in a private plane that flew directly from Washington Dulles International Airport. Family members then drove him to his home on Main street in Vineyard Haven.

People love lighthouses. When you enter the word into Google's search engine, 44,800,000 sites pop up. There are lighthouse magazines, magnets and sweatshirts. The New England region even has its own fan group dedicated to the structure - New England Lighthouse Lovers. "Lighthouses are modern day castles," said Craig Dripps, president of the East Chop Association. "They have a sense of magic and history. They hold secrets."

A woman visitor driving a moped down a straight stretch of the Edgartown-West Tisbury Road in West Tisbury on Sunday was killed after she reportedly lost control of the two-wheeled vehicle and struck a utility pole head-on.