Annual Holiday Light Display Brightens Oak Bluff's Ocean Park.
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Martha's Vineyard Film Festival highlighted environmental issues on its opening night Wednesday.
March 21, 2024
The light lingers well past five o’clock now, and the late day sky is streaked with fuchsia punctuated by scudding, slate-colored clouds. Spring is offically here now, and the strengthening sunlight is an ever-present reminder as well. It's March on the Vineyard.
March 21, 2024
Tuesday bring the spring equinox at 11:06 p.m. This is one of the best times of the year to walk the Island, and the Vineyard is lucky to have so many beautiful conservation properties for such walking.
March 17, 2024
In 1973 every Island town took steps to adopt comprehensive zoning. A year later, a land use commission for the Vineyard was introduced as a compromise to the Kennedy bill. The state commission was endorsed by a referendum vote in all six Island towns in March 1974.
March 14, 2024
Wild Care Cape Cod brings Wilfred the Barn Owl back to Whipporwill Farm in West Tisbury to release it where it was rescued.
March 14, 2024
Congratulations to 16 Martha's Vineyard Regional High School students for winning a total of 22 awards in the 2024 Massachusetts Scholastic Art Awards.
March 11, 2024
Attendees of the final Vineyard Conservation Society Winter Walk make their way from Slough Farm to Edgartown Great Pond and back in Katama. Guests Emily Reddington of The Great Pond Foundation and Ray Ewing of The Vineyard Gazette accompanied the walkers.
March 11, 2024
Warming days and still cool nights keep the fog horn sounding and Islanders appreciating the cloaking week-long fog.
March 10, 2024
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