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It’s a good thing February is a short month, because it’s easily the dullest one in the birding year. With the great ponds mostly or entirely...
Pruning Blueberries
The Polly Hill Arboretum and Susan Murphy, proprietor of Murphy Blueberry Farm in Chilmark, will host a hands-on workshop in...
Friends and supporters of Patty and Lewis Codding of Vineyard Haven who lost their home to fire last week, have established an account at the...
Edgartown Library is raffling off a basket of Valentine treats on Friday, Feb. 13 at 4 p.m. Tickets are $3 each, two tickets for $5, or ten tickets...
Temperature: Precip.
Day Max. Min. Inches.
Fº Fº
Jan. 30 36 17 .00
Jan. 31 38 22 .01*
Feb. 1 44 19 .00
Feb. 2 48 33 .00
Feb. 3 51 32 .32*
Feb...
A Toast to Rabbie
If a Scot be ripe for toastin’,
If a Scot be fit for praise,
If a Scot stands high above the rest
For the way he spent his...
Major newspapers this week carried obituaries and tributes for author John Updike, who died Tuesday at the age of 76 of lung cancer. A former...
E lection Day 2008: Spring out of bed early and zap e-mails to Congressman Delahunt and Senator Kennedy, humbly requesting a ticket — maybe two...
Talk of the Town
From a January, 1958 article by Colbert Smith:
One could well write a whole series of articles about the wintering gossip...
I’m nearing that arbitrary age when the federal government has determined I am approaching senior citizenhood, and thus entitled to benefits from...
BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The Martha’s Vineyard Commission, along with the towns and other public entities, is very...
January Thaw
After weeks on end of snow and ice it was nice to see the grass again this week, if even for a few brief moments when the sunshine...