The faint stirrings of spring are felt. The pinkletinks sing their songs of love, the lambs begin to take their first steps. The light changes and the wind carries with it a hint of warmth. The den begins to feel too small and the wider world awaits.

March 18, 2023

A sense of gray continues, in the forests and the sky, as if one season is not yet ready to give over to the next. Letting go is hard. But March reminds us to begin again, slowly but surely, rocking to its own rhythm. The cycle of rebirth and renewal awaits. 

March 10, 2023

The Vineyard's most peaceful and least frantic week of the year is drawing to an end. It's the turning point of winter as spring appears on the horizon. The week’s earlier snow has retreated into puddles, then disappeared.

March 5, 2023

The Vineyard girls hockey team season ended sooner than planned Thursday, with the girls losing 5-2 at home to Norwood.

March 3, 2023

The Vineyard boys hockey team successfully defended home ice Wednesday with a 5-1 victory over Fitchburg in the opening round of the playoffs.

March 1, 2023

British poet Edith Sitwell took winter to heart. She believed it “is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”

February 27, 2023

We will remember this New England winter, at least to date, as a season more than unusual and almost absent of snow. Island warming is the talk of the Vineyard. Temperatures this past week have reached the 50s, with a high of 70 last weekend.

February 26, 2023

Demolition was underway this weekend on the Chappaquiddick summer home on a bluff at Wasque that has been severely threatened by the breach along Norton Point.

February 25, 2023

Now the path of the new year leads us into February, another month that has its whole being in the season of winter. But unlike our lives, winter is a story whose ending we already know.

February 23, 2023

Chicago opened Thursday night at the high school's Performing Arts Center, and Friday night’s audience, which packed the nearly 800-seat theatre, exploded in applause for a cast that included seniors Jack Crawford as Billy Flynn, Annabelle Brothers as Roxie Hart, Faith Fecitt as Velma Kelly, and

February 21, 2023

Resident winter birds are plentiful in February during the stretch between winter and spring, and northbound migrants begin to arrive.

February 21, 2023

On the Island, we measure and treasure the months of quietude, the resting period before the approach to the summer season begins, and it causes us to come up short to realize that February is halfway done and spring is little more than a month away.

February 19, 2023

For Love Lives Here, Featherstone Center for the Arts invited Island artists to interpret the power of love and what “here” means since the Vineyard holds such a power of place, particularly for artists who find inspiration on the Island.

February 18, 2023

Oak Bluffs popular eatery, Linda Jean’s, which had been closed since mid-December, celebrated its re-opening with a ribbon cutting and gracious words from new owners Lisa and Winston Christie.

February 16, 2023

We are about midway between winter solstice and vernal equinox, but the weather feels more like early spring than midwinter. This week some of the days were almost balmy.

February 12, 2023

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