Annual Holiday Light Display Brightens Oak Bluff's Ocean Park.
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Democracy at the ground level — in a grammar school gym, an historic whaling church and a performing arts center — began last night when a trio of town meetings opened the political season on the Vineyard.
April 10, 2024
Vineyarders gathered at libraries, shorelines, town streets, rooftops and in backyards. They huddled on beach chairs, sat on Lucy Vincent Beach rocks, the Big Bridge and anywhere else that offered prime viewing spots.
April 8, 2024
Hundreds of people crowded into the regional high school gym Sunday afternoon, filling the bleachers and sidelines for the memorial scholarship basketball tournament in honor of Waylon Madison Sauer, who died in a car accident this fall.
April 8, 2024
Albert Fischer weaves a love story at the memorial for his wife, Linda, to the Chilmark Community Center S.R.O crowd.
April 8, 2024
The parade of flowers are in bloom with daffodils flamboyantly leading the way, the grass is greening up nicely, and the air is warmer. It's an April morning, and everything is new.
April 7, 2024
The Martha's Vineyard Charter School students are brining the magic to the Grange Hall in West Tisbury with their spring play: Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic. The show is an ironic take on the Harry Potter stories.
April 5, 2024
The line-up for the March jam included Kate Taylor, Rick B and the Slip Time Ensemble, Setsunai, Lucy Mayhew, Jemima James, Willy Mason, Ben Taylor, John O'Toole, Ben Robinson, David Stanwood and many more Island musicians.
April 1, 2024
A crowd gathered at the Flying Horses this weekend for the grand reopening to catch a glimpse of the work done during the off-season, and to get a chance at catching the coveted brass ring.
April 1, 2024
Recent rain and chill to the contrary, spring has reached our shores, and the season ahead has come into sight. The daffodils are in bloom, the forsythia is opening, robins are rampant, and osprey have returned to their summer homes.
March 31, 2024
Long used as a lifeguard building, the Donnelly house was the last in a long history of South Beach fishing shacks.
March 29, 2024
Donnie Benefit and Greg Bettencourt lead dredging efforts in Edgartown Great Pond.
March 28, 2024
The Martha's Vineyard Museum unveiled its new partnership with Aquila owners Del Araujo and Jennifer Straub.
March 26, 2024
It is March and, as expected, the pace of the northward migration has increased. Southwesterly winds brought a variety of birds northward. Can spring and summer be far behind?
March 26, 2024
A West Tisbury resident and the co-chair of the Coalition to Create the Martha’s Vineyard Housing Bank, Arielle Faria pulled nomination papers to run and created a fundraising committee late last month. She held a campaign kickoff event at the ArtCliff Diner on Saturday.
March 25, 2024
Island police, fire, and emergency personnel worked with the Martha’s Vineyard Airport to stage an emergency response drill on Sunday morning.
March 25, 2024
It’s an odd fact of the English language that certain words appear only in their negative form, their prefixes attached with etymological epoxy. We hear only of dis-gruntled postal workers, although plenty of their happy counterparts can be found smiling behind the counters of Island post offices.
March 24, 2024