From the track to the tennis courts, the lacrosse fields to the baseball and softball diamonds, to the ocean waters, spring sports is firing on all cylinders.
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With Memorial Day comes the unofficial start to the busy summer season. Across the Island, store owners are unboxing new merchandise and home owners are putting one last coat of paint of the fence.
May 23, 2024
Islanders headed to the Climate Fair on Sunday at the Agricultural Hall to learn about environmental issues and take action.
May 20, 2024
Now in full bloom of pale lavender, deep purple and white, lilacs belong first of all to springtime on the Vineyard and only then to the rest of New England.
May 19, 2024
The Netflix adaptation of Judy Blume’s novel, Forever, began shooting on the Island this week.
May 14, 2024
Busy is the common theme as the Vineyard gets ready for another summer season with Memorial Day just a few weeks away.
May 14, 2024
The cherry trees on down-Island main streets are putting on a remarkable display, the tiny goldfinch has begun to appear as an unmistakable bright yellow dot among the fresh green of tree limbs just beginning to leaf, and shops are opening their doors, freshening their paint and anticipating the...
May 12, 2024
Fresh from their Austrian tour last month, the Minnesingers take over the stage at the Martha’s Vineyard Performing Arts Center this weekend for two concerts, Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.
May 9, 2024
Over 400 cyclists participated in Ride The Vineyard 2024 to raise money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
May 6, 2024
Duarte’s Pond was the place to be as the Kids’ Trout Tournament began at daybreak on Saturday. This is the 50th year for the annual trout tournament, started in 1973 by Island fisherman Cooper Gilkes 3rd and his wife Lela.
May 6, 2024
The birds are deep in conversation each morning, calling back and forth to greet each day. A warm sun plays peekaboo with a gray sky and chilly wind. The water warms but is not yet warm.
May 3, 2024
MV Youth announces its list of 2024 scholarship recipients.
April 30, 2024
Oak Bluffs parade and opening day ceremonies herald a new season for Martha's Vineyard Little League.
April 29, 2024
April begins her departure, a stage setter stepping aside now for May to make its grand entrace.
April 26, 2024
Unofficially the first poet laureate of the Island was Dionis Coffin Riggs, who began hosting a poetry group at the Cleaveland House in West Tisbury in 1960. Here is Dionis’s poem Wait, Spring, which was published in the April 19, 1996 Gazette:
April 21, 2024
The spring migration is in full force in April as ummer visitors come north while winter residents depart. Osprey, greater yellowlegs, piping plovers and double-crested cormorants arrive with southerly winds.
April 17, 2024