The sun rose on the morning of July Fourth, and the Vineyard starts the day with morning walks, coffee, and waking up late from weekend festivities. Summer crowds have filled the Island for the Fourth of July holiday, flags are flying and families are gathering.

July 4, 2022

July begins the grand journey we call Vineyard summer.

July 3, 2022

The Martha's Vineyard Women's Softball League anchors a cherished postion at Veteran’s Park. It is slow-pitch and at-bats are played with two balls and three strikes.

June 30, 2022

Situated just north of Cuttyhunk and Nashawena, Penikese is a state-owned island in Gosnold spanning 75 acres. The island is inhabited by gulls, oystercatchers, terns, snakes and rabbits. Very few trees grace its hilly plains, and rocks lace its jagged shores.

June 29, 2022

Vineyard schools closed their lockers for the year today. Bring on the popsicles, baseball games, and summer reading!

June 27, 2022

On Saturday at the Evening of Discovery, the Martha’s Vineyard Museum’s annual opening of summer party and fundraiser, white flags billowed on stately sailcloth tents, and festive lights twinkled under the tent’s ceilings.

June 27, 2022

The Vineyard sailing season has begun. The ever popular Round-the-Island race set sail at the Edgartown Yacht Club this weekend.

June 27, 2022

June is the on-ramp for the Vineyard's swift passage through summer, the month when the pieces that make up the busy mosaic of summer life here fall into place and the full picture begins to take shape.

June 26, 2022

Islanders gathered at Five Corners Saturday to protest the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, sparking demonstrations on the Vineyard and across the nation.

June 25, 2022

June is the month of bursting colors and beguiling aromas, and now we are on the threshold of summer.

June 25, 2022

Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School students debuted Peter Pan and the Quest to Save Neverland, a reinvention of J. M. Barrie’s classic play that will travel next summer to Edinburgh’s Fringe Festival.

June 23, 2022

Now migrating shorebirds return as the calendar turns its page to June. Birders have crowded Island ponds and beaches as ruddy turnstones, short-billed dowitchers, red knots, sandpipers, and dunlin return to their summer homes.

June 21, 2022

Juneteenth was celebrated this weekend on the Vineyard as a weekend-long jubilee. Events included musical performances at the Tabernacle, historians discussing slavery and emancipation, and a sampling of foods from a gospel brunch to a tasting from Island black and indigenous chefs.

June 20, 2022

Islanders, day-trippers and summer residents all found their way to Oak Bluffs Saturday for the annual Harborfest.

June 19, 2022

The summer solstice is arriving this week.

June 19, 2022

Dressed to the nines, Islanders came out to the historic Dr. Daniel Fisher House Thursday night for the annual Taste of the Vineyard, a super-sized soiree and smorgasbord that benefits the Vineyard Trust.

June 18, 2022

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