Two years after Michael Brown died from anaphylactic shock on the Vineyard, his wife Megan Shai Brown testified at the State House in favor of increasing access to lifesaving allergy medication across Massachusetts.

Bloomsday, the annual celebration of Irish writer James Joyce, returns to the Island on Saturday, June 14.

Pride is coming to the Island this weekend. The fourth annual pride parade begins at 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 14 at the Oak Bluffs roundabout and will end at Ocean Park.

LadyFest MV, a music festival that raises money for the Island’s domestic violence prevention program, will be returning to Oak Bluffs this fall after going on hiatus last year.

A Japanese silk thread warehouse arrived in western Massachusetts last month, where it will have a second life as a wood shop. The building’s over 6,000-mile journey to its new home was facilitated by Vineyarder Billy Dillon.

A red carpet was rolled out on the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School grounds Saturday afternoon to celebrate its two graduating seniors: Morgan Caruso and Quinn Floyd.