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Workers have already begun forming new dunes on South Beach’s Left Fork, using dredged sand from Katama Bay and Herring Creek. Both water bodies had filled with sand after December and January’s storms.
March 4, 2024
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, and we have been blessed with appropriate weather, sunny and mild.
March 3, 2024
Boys varsity hockey team breezes through the first round of the playoffs against the Greenfield Green Wave.
March 1, 2024
After more than three years of permitting and construction, the mixed-use Stone Bank condominium project is a largely tenanted new mini-neighborhood in downtown Vineyard Haven.
February 29, 2024
February 28, 2024
March is next but what awaits at its outset — a lion, a lamb or something in between? All will be revealed soon enough, but before the shift there is an extra day to ponder, a moment to leap or linger or maybe sit back and listen. Or better yet, make time for all three.
February 20, 2024
Resident winter birds are plentiful in February during the stretch between winter and spring, and northbound migrants begin to arrive.
February 19, 2024
True love wins out over mistaken identities in this musical reimagining of Shakespeare's classic comedy.
February 18, 2024
The goundhog said spring was on its way but Mother Nature had other plans. Snow fell and stuck around, blanketing the Island in white.
February 16, 2024
February 15, 2024
The Vineyard received between 6 and 9 inches of snow Tuesday. It was the largest snow storm of the season.
February 14, 2024
Already the light feels different, more abundant, brighter. It brings with it warmth, even on cold days, along with the scent of new life. February has just begun but already there is a subtle shift, a whisper of what is to come. Listen closely.
February 11, 2024
A group of the Island’s older hockey enthusiasts gather at the Martha’s Vineyard Ice Arena to shoot the bull and shoot the puck. They have conceded body checking and slap shots to the good sense that comes with age, but the competition and the camaraderie are as strong as ever.
February 7, 2024
We are about midway between winter solstice and vernal equinox, but the weather feels more like early spring than midwinter. We've had all the precipitation that even the driest duck could ask for, but it's been rain, not snow.
February 4, 2024
February 2, 2024
Out walking, we see our own breath in the air and appreciate something essential about what it means to be alive.
January 31, 2024