crab spider
“Patience is the greatest of all virtues.” Though Cato the Elder figured this out around 200 BC, it is likely that crab spiders could have told...
night heron
Gus Ben David, of the World of Reptiles and Birds, and I have received a few calls or e-mails about ailing sea birds and shorebirds. Deb Hancock...
corn silk
No more Mrs. Nice Guy! I have had it with the voles in my vegetable garden. I have tried several deterrents for the little pests. Nothing has...
Emily Mercier, daughter of Susan and Philip Mercier of Edgartown, was named to the dean’s list at Smith College for the 2011-2012 school year....
Chilmark Nicholas Negroponte and Debra Z. Porter purchased 3 Signal Hill Lane in Chilmark from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute for $2,650,000...
martina thornton
Martina Thornton was sworn in as the new county manager on Wednesday evening. Mrs. Thornton, who served as executive assistant to the county...
Sengekontacket Pond will reopen for shellfishing Friday morning following state tests that came back clean, Edgartown shellfish constable Paul...
In my 26 years of summer visits to the Vineyard, the same memories seem to stick with me all year long: eating a steamed lobster from Betsy Larsen’s...
Deborah Jaffe Yeomans welcomed me at her cottage near Menemsha in 2010. We had a few days of rain and walked into little shops she had not seen.
Thank you to Mark Lovewell for the article in the Gazette on Rocket Day, lost rockets and the cub scouts. Scouting on Martha’s Vineyard is one of the...
state road accident
An Edgartown woman was arrested on drunken driving charges Tuesday after she was involved in a two-car crash in West Tisbury that sent two to the...
What’s big and gray and has been recently spotted on Martha’s Vineyard? The Amity Gazette. With tourists streaming onto the Island this week for...

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