The 25th annual Martha's Vineyard Hospital health fair was a fun mix of everything from tick-borne illness, blood pressure clinics, and much more, all with a focus on health and wellness.

Islanders crowded into the regional high school gym this weekend, filling the bleachers and sidelines for the memorial scholarship basketball tournament in honor of Waylon Madison Sauer, who died in a car accident in 2023.

Hands Off! hosted a protest at Five Corners in Vineyard Haven under gray skies as part of a nationwide movement against the Trump administration’s dismantling of people’s rights and freedoms.

While winter winds still whip across the fields, the Vineyard’s high school athletes are braving the elements and taking on the challenge of spring sports in not-so-springlike weather.

In these early days of spring an Islander is as likely to see morning frost as blooming daffodils, and one day's heat is the next day's chill. We need no banging of drums for the season to come; our yearning for the warmth is palpable. But signs and portents do abound, all around us.

As much as ancient sayings are to be revered, there’s a lot to be said for March both coming in and going out like a lamb.

Winter residents are plentiful and northbound migrants start to arrive during March in the birding world. Migrant species including red-winged blackbirds, tree swallows, killdeer and American robins arrive along with spring.

First responders of the Vineyard battled for bragging rights at the ice arena on Saturday for the annual police department versus fire department hockey game. The Finest (police) won in the end 8-5 over the Bravest (firefighters).