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.
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St. Patrick's Day celebrations took place across The Island on Sunday, including at The Portugese-American Club and Mo's Lunch in Oak Bluffs. Guinness, corned beef from, and music filled Island bars and restaurants as revelers wore green and toasted the luck of the Irish.
March 18, 2025
March. It’s a quixotic month. Some days it smiles in the way of spring and makes the pussy willows and the snowdrops bloom and the forsythia edge toward budding. Sometimes it growls in a forbidding way, letting everyone know that winter hasn’t quite gone by.
March 16, 2025
Paul Beeson and Kirsten Anderson opened the iconic Upper Main street business for their second season at the helm.
March 14, 2025
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.
March 12, 2025
The Friends of Mill Pond presented Old Mill and Mill Pond of West Tisbury at the West Tisbury Library last Saturday as part of their month-long art exhibit and event series, Celebrating Mill Pond: Sustaining Serenity Together.
March 12, 2025
The nineth annual Meat Ball Dinner and Dance Party was held at the Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury last Saturday. There was plenty of meat prepared by Charlie Granquist of Slough Farm to eat and afterwards dancing to the beat of the Missus Biskus.
March 10, 2025
Art lovers flocked to Featherstone Sunday, where the walls of the Francine Kelly Gallery were decorated with works of art by 98 artists of different ages, skill levels and genres celebrating their muse.
March 9, 2025
Today is Daylight Saving time. On the Island are first arrivals: the emerging crocuses and snowdrops, the sounds of songbirds absent through the winter, and the distinctive choral cry of spring peepers known in these parts as pinkletinks.
March 9, 2025
Hundreds of people gathered at Waterfront Park in Woods Hole Friday as part of the Stand Up for Science rallies held around the world in response to federal funding cuts in scientific research
March 8, 2025
The Vineyard’s most peaceful and least frantic week of the year is drawing to an end. It’s the turning point of winter as spring appears on the horizon.
March 2, 2025
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.
March 1, 2025
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.
February 28, 2025
Resident winter birds are plentiful in February during the stretch between winter and spring, and northbound migrants begin to arrive.
February 27, 2025
Hundreds of people gathered at the Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury on Saturday to celebrate the life of Janet Messineo, the respected Island angler, taxidermist and writer.
February 24, 2025
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.
February 23, 2025
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.
February 18, 2025