When I first began writing this column over 10 years ago, I had some sort of rant about one thing or another.
Nature & Science
The Perseid Meteor Shower takes place in the wee hours of Sunday and Monday morning. The best time to look is from 11 p.m. Saturday and Sunday night...
Menemsha fisherman Walter Dixon had a surprise shipmate join his fishing trip on Monday afternoon: a brown booby.
Caterpillars are eating my garden greens. More accurately, they are voraciously consuming every leaf in sight, leaving me almost nothing but...
Unexpected is not an understatement. A brown booby is a pelagic species that some birders make special trips to the Dry Tortugas to see.
The archery season for deer will be extended by two weeks in an area of the state that includes the Vineyard, state officials announced last week.
The coming week offers all of us an opportune time to go hunting for shooting stars.
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I could not have been happier with the lovely rain last Saturday afternoon.
A couple of us were complaining about the hot, humid weather in Vineyard Grocers. Mark, the manager told us that Oman on the Arabian peninsula just set the all-time highest low temperature – 109!