Annual Holiday Light Display Brightens Oak Bluff's Ocean Park.
Annual Holiday Light Display Brightens Oak Bluff's Ocean Park.
The upcoming Thanksgiving holiday marks the end of one season and the beginning of another, but this year there is a distinct sense of procrastination about it all.
The Minnesingers, and the MVRHS dance team sponsored by RISE practice ahead of trip to accompany high school football team to game at Fenway Park versus Nantucket.
The Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Foundation gave out $530,000 to 46 local organizations this year.
Volunteers arrived at Merry Farm to assist in a weekend-long kiln firing.
To mark the one year anniversary of the tragic loss of Waylon Madison Sauer, who died in a car accident last fall, a student-led paddle out was held Saturday at Squibnocket Beach.
Now is the time for leisurely drives on roads where traffic is the exception, not the rule, down lanes that are deserted in the chill of deepening autumn.
The Veterans Day parade in Oak Bluffs stepped off at 10:45 on Lake avenue and was a multigenerational affair, led by an honor guard of three young Coast Guardsmen dressed in crisp blues, and followed by servicemen including Island Scouts.
An early morning apricot sun climbs over the eastern edge of the Island, illuminating beach grass and reflecting off the dark navy water of Nantucket Sound.
American poet John Greenleaf Whittier wrote: To-day, alike are great and small, The nameless and the known; My palace is the people's hall, The ballot-box, my throne! And we can't agree more this year.
Oak Bluffs voters followed turkeys into the polls and in Edgartown ballots were cast behind the traditional red, white and blue striped booths. Many voters brought their children to witness democracy in action. Vineyard voters headed to the polls Tuesday, Nov.
The shift from Daylight Saving Time to Eastern Standard Time Happened today at 2 a.m. Now our days and nights divide a little differently according to sunrise and sunset, lighter in early morning, darker in early evening.
Bragging rights were on the line Saturday when Nantucket traveled to the Vineyard to compete for the Golden Anchor trophies, sporting competitions billed as the Battle in the Atlantic.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held this past Saturday to officially mark the completion of the Tisbury School renovation project. Employees led public tours through the new facility.
Halloween looms around the corner on Thursday, Oct. 31, but Edgartown didn't wait until the witching hour to get spooky.
Kids were invited to the Ag Hall on Saturday for SparkMV, a new event where they experienced a variety of trade work and got their hands dirty with tools.
October is autumn through and through, and autumn is for walking. Alongshore, in the fields and forests, no month rewards the walker more handsomely, and although this may be somewhere truer than on the Vineyard, we don't know where that place might be.