At the Agricultural Hall children roamed the grounds after West Tisbury Congregational Church's community service, searching for treats, playing games and blowing bubbles with a song in their heart.
At the Agricultural Hall children roamed the grounds after West Tisbury Congregational Church's community service, searching for treats, playing games and blowing bubbles with a song in their heart.
The Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival has carved out a comfortable spring niche with its casual approach to presenting new independent movies.
In these early days of spring an Islander is as likely to see morning frost as blooming daffodils, and one day's heat is the next day's chill. We need no banging of drums for the season to come; our yearning for the warmth is palpable. But signs and portents do abound, all around us.
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.
Women and men choose teams and play coed basketball pickup games every tuesday night at the Martha’s Vineyard Boys and Girls Club.
The Island's own live, variety fundraising game show embarked upon its eighth year and its twelfth show. Three contestants faced ridiculous challenges as they vied to win money for their favorite local nonprofit.
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.
First responders of the Vineyard battled for bragging rights at the ice arena on Saturday for the annual police department versus fire department hockey game. The Finest (police) won in the end 8-5 over the Bravest (firefighters).
The shift from winter to spring feels like an entirely different season, a period of anticipation. We look for signs of new growth in every tree. Now is the time to finish the winter's chores, to make way for a new season.
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. 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.
Paul Beeson and Kirsten Anderson opened the iconic Upper Main street business for their second season at the helm.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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