Clear skies and fair seas but not much wind met the 66 sailing teams that set out Saturday in the Edgartown Yacht Club’s annual ‘Round-the-Island race, a Vineyard tradition since 1938.

The last day of school on the Island finally arrived Monday, with a half-day dismissal signaling the official start of summer for Vineyard students.

MVY Radio officially cut the ribbon on their State Road studio and office building Friday morning, welcoming community members to the new space with a tour, a lunch and a champagne toast.

Beginning 15 years ago, Neighborhood First has come to Martha’s Vineyard for a week each June to give teens and preteens from the Philadelphia area a chance to relax and have fun on the Island.

State environmental officials said Wednesday that they now “strongly suspect” that avian influenza is responsible for the death of large numbers of seabirds washing up on Island shores.

This weekend, students at the charter school debuted Peter Pan and the Quest to Save Neverland, a reinvention of J. M. Barrie’s play that will travel next summer to Edinburgh’s Fringe Festival.