February sits opposite August in our yearly rotation, each the final full month before the equinox. On the Vineyard August is when summer hits its stride. Beach days start to pile up.

The boys and girls high school hockey teams both lost in the first round of playoffs Thursday, with the girls losing in overtime 3-2 to Pembroke and the boys losing 2-1 to Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational High School.  

Winter school vacation marks the quietest week of the year on Martha’s Vineyard. This is the week when families with schoolchildren flee the Island.

The girls hockey team recently strung together three wins in a row where they outscored their opponents 17-4 with two shutouts. Most recently, against Barnstable, they won 6-0 with goals from Elle Mone, Abby Geary, Ava Mikos, Colby D’Arcy and two from Mackenna Metell.

The air smelled of straw, sawdust and livestock at the agricultural fairgrounds this Saturday, and the bahs ands bleets of sheep mingled with shouts of excited children.

The Annual Lip Sync Contest to benefit the Friends of Family Planning took place at The Loft in Oak Bluffs.

Silence is simply the absence of sound, as darkness is the absence of light, and so it follows that nothing can really be quieter than quiet.

Anything Goes follows the antics of gangsters, an heiress and a nightclub singer as they board an ocean liner headed to London from New York City. The musical, written by Cole Porter and first produced in 1934, is a classic show known for its antics and tap numbers.