Ripples of Hurricane Frances left a tragic mark on a remote section of Chilmark's south shore Friday afternoon. A rip current is being blamed in the drowning death of a 58-year-old woman from Cambridge who was swimming with a friend.

Gwenneth Knight, a consultant to the Harvard University Art Museums on Indian and Islamic acquisitions, died Saturday after being airlifted to Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston from the Martha's Vineyard Hospital.

End of Summer Business Assessment: Season Analysis Results Are Mixed

By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL

Summer had its winners and losers. The smart shoppers were definitely on the Vineyard, and how they spent their money is already the talk of the business community.

Ending a Quick Search, School District Names Interim Principals for Year Ahead

By CHRIS BURRELL

Three consecutive days of interviews this week yielded two new principals up-Island: Michael Halt will take over at the West Tisbury School, and Diane Gandy becomes principal at the Chilmark School.

Mr. Halt, 39, will leave his post as vice-principal at the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School to accept the interim principalship in West Tisbury.

Lynn C. Murphy has reason to celebrate this Labor Day weekend. He has marked a business anniversary few single proprietors ever reach: He has operated Menemsha Marine Repair for half a century now.

They decided almost three years ago that replacing a yellow blinker beacon with a roundabout was the safest solution for a notoriously dangerous intersection, but just weeks before hiring an engineer to design it, Oak Bluffs selectmen are thinking it over - one more time.

Labor Day's Departures Remind Us of the Pleasures that Attracted Them

By C.K. WOLFSON

It's an Us and Them question: How was your Vineyard summer?

For most of the working Us, it's an anthem of impatience, of too slow, too long lines and cars. It is a fast tempo fugue in a world that seems to be waltzing; too many demands and not enough time.