Winter avian residents arrive and the occasional rare birds move through the Island in December, as winter begins.
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Photography
March. It’s a quixotic month. Some days it smiles in the way of spring and makes the pussy willows and the snowdrops bloom.
March 19, 2017
The Newes from America kept the Irish spirit alive Saturday for its sixth annual St. Patrick's Day parade.
March 18, 2017
Vineyarders enjoyed a different type of blizzard as the Dairy Queen in Edgartown reopened for the season.
March 16, 2017
A strong winter storm lashed the Vineyard with rain and wind Tuesday, cancelling ferries and closing some roads.
March 14, 2017
Hershel West, 92, has been working for the Larsen family, one of the oldest fishing families on Martha’s Vineyard, for more than 70 years.
March 14, 2017
The blooming of crocuses and snowdrops, the sounds of songbirds, sheep barns filled with the cries of newborn lambs,
March 13, 2017
A public safety rivalry between police officers and firefighters heated up the ice at Martha’s Vineyard Arena Saturday.
March 13, 2017
At 2 a.m. this morning we leapt forward into Daylight Saving Time.
March 12, 2017
With spring waiting in the shadows winter weather took one more star turn on Martha's Vineyard this week.
March 10, 2017
Members of the We Stand Together women's group gathered Wednesday for a rally to celebrate International Women’s Day.
March 9, 2017
The Vineyard's most peaceful and least frantic week of the year is drawing to an end.
March 5, 2017
March came in like a lamb on the Vineyard, a soft, fuzzy, foggy lamb.
March 1, 2017
February 28, 2017
On a February day Stanley Larsen captains his fishing boat out of Menemsha Harbor to his offshore blue mussel farm off Chilmark's north shore.
February 27, 2017
Winter school vacation marks the quietest week of the year on Martha’s Vineyard.
February 26, 2017
The Vineyard Gazette won 12 photography awards at the 2017 New England Newspaper and Press Association competition.
February 25, 2017