More than 20 volunteers gathered Sunday morning to plant 10 new trees across three parks in Oak Bluffs — Niantic, Nashawena and Viera.
Farm & Garden
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By LYNNE IRONS This past week the third and fourth grade classes at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School began learning about corn’s native...
By LYNNE IRONS I know what I like. I’m absolute about my dislikes. I grew a number of eggplant and pepper varieties this year and, fortunately,...
By LYNNE IRONS
By LYNNE IRONS I can’t remember a year when I grew so many tomatoes. I have painted myself into a corner. Wasting food is among my least desirable...
By LYNNE IRONS There is a Paul Simon song with the following lyric: “Why am I soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?” The...
By LYNNE IRONS I spent some time last weekend following the near-nonstop coverage of the fifth-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Then, in...
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Nature & Science Stories
A new chapter in Island environmental restoration is blooming in a laboratory on the shores of the Lagoon. There, in a cool tub of water at a Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group Hatchery, a small artificial meadow of eelgrass is beginning to flower.
A 4.8 magnitude earthquake centered in New Jersey caused minor tremors on Martha’s Vineyard Friday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey’s Earthquake Hazards program.