Thomas Humphrey

Bethany Hammond, assistant director of the Up-Island Council on Aging, will be taking over as new director of the organization next month, after the West Tisbury select board voted to appoint her to the role at their meeting on Wednesday.

Scores of beachcombers fanned out across the shores of Martha’s Vineyard on Saturday, for the 32nd annual Earth Day beach cleanup event, coordinated by the Vineyard Conservation Society.

Cambridge-based Iggy’s Bakery is looking to take over management of The Bite restaurant in Menemsha this summer.

Barn swallows flitted amidst the drizzle at Duarte’s Pond in West Tisbury Wednesday morning, where a group of volunteers had gathered by the shore to await a truckload of trout. It was pond stocking day for the Kid’s Trout Tournament which begins at daybreak on Saturday, May 4.

When a batch of Martha’s Vineyard bay scallops was released recently in New York’s Peconic Bay, they were never expected to survive for long. The Peconic Bay waters are warmer than the Vineyard, dirtier and beset with a parasite called Coccidia, which has decimated the Empire State’s scallop population in recent years.

More than 30 years ago, at a Chinese restaurant in Boston, a message from a fortune cookie set Island resident, Dr. Gerry Yukevich, on course for a lifelong love affair with Caribbean cruising.

The present always holds a little something of the past, but nothing stays the same.

It was one of those mild foggy days, when the misty ocean rises up into the air to envelope the whole Island in harbor-side cool, and the weather reminds one of lettuce: crisp and dewy fresh.

Beige and brown and tan and black, with horns spiraled or semicircular or in undulating waves, a legion of goats marched up the hill toward us, bleating in anticipation of fresh grass and leaves.

In a steamy greenhouse in West Tisbury, in the warm aftermath of a summertime downpour, there are leaves, mostly green with hints of red, sparsely topping a collection of spindly stems.