I feel like it’s been windy for weeks on end. The warm days at the beginning of the week, coupled with the aforementioned wind, are drying out the baby plants and seedlings at an alarming rate.
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By LYNNE IRONS I am a hopeless pack rat. I bet I still have every piece of macaroni my children fashioned into artwork at nursery school. The...
There is no such thing as a seagull. Growing up in the city by the ocean, I believed there were three bird species: pigeons, sparrows and...
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Tonight’s crescent moon appears low in the western sky after sunset in the zodiacal constellation Aquarius. The moon reaches first quarter phase on...
In a clear sign of a cooling real estate market here, revenues at the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank fell in 2007 for the second straight calendar...
About 130 acres of land on the Vineyard was permanently protected from development under new conservation restrictions in 2007, according to state...
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Thursday July 11, 2024
Beige and brown and tan and black, with horns spiraled or semicircular or in undulating waves, a legion of goats marched up the hill toward us, bleating in anticipation of fresh grass and leaves.