Grieving families gathered at the Harbor View Hotel for the 22nd annual Ceremony of Remembrance as rain changed the usual location at the base of the Edgartown Lighthouse. Everyone received white carnations memorializing their child.
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High winds and waves brought serious surfers to Squibnocket.
September 29, 2022
The West Tisbury Farmers' Market, a summer staple on the Island, has been running Wednesdays and Saturdays on the fields on the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society since June.
September 27, 2022
As the season turns from summer to fall, summer bird residents start to depart for their winter homes while others visit the Vineyard as they fly southward.
September 26, 2022
Dawn broke on the first day of fall Thursday with rain and a hard wind. Intrepid windsurfers raced through whitecaps on Sengie, framed on the barrier beach saltmarsh that swayed and danced with every gust.
September 25, 2022
All eyes are on the weigh station at the foot of Main street on the Edgartown harbor. Each morning and evening from 8 to 10, the fish are brought to the scales. Stories of the big one caught and the ones that got away carry on throughout the day and night.
September 22, 2022
Casting paper ballots marked YES or NO, Tisbury voters overwhelmingly approved 373 to 112 nearly $26 million in new funding for the proposed school renovations.
September 21, 2022
Gone fishing is the rallying cry for the Island in the second week of the derby. And as always the competition signals that time in the Vineyard year between the waning days of summer and the arrival of autumn.
September 21, 2022
Dozens of classic cars rolled into Veterans Park for the Tisbury Fire Department's annual classic car show. The event is a fundraiser for the Fallen Firefighters Fund.
September 19, 2022
The annual Martha's Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Kids Derby brought families to the Oak Bluffs Steamship wharf early Sunday morning. Even before the sun had risen, the two hour fishing competittion was underway.
September 18, 2022
The sights and sounds of September measure the Island year better than any calendar. Look to the longer evening shadows under a sinking sun, to the blooming dahlias and to the song of crickets.
September 17, 2022
Families held hands and comforted one another as they gathered around the perimeter of the Edgartown Lighthouse for the annual Ceremony of Remembrance.
September 17, 2022
Fifty mostly Venezuelan migrants boarded VTA buses to take them to the ferry and then to Joint Base Cape Cod where they would be provided shelter and humanitarian support.
September 16, 2022
Action during the first week of the 77th annual Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby finds fishermen crowding jetties, surfcasting, and heading out in boats to try their luck offshore.
September 16, 2022
A humanitarian effort was underway Thursday on the Vineyard to shelter and feed 50 migrants from Venezuela and Colombia who arrived unexpectedly by plane Wednesday afternoon.
September 15, 2022
Light wind caused the cancellation of the 45th George Moffett Race on Saturday, but sailors brouyyght their boats into Vineyard Haven's outer harbor regardless.
September 15, 2022
The Martha's Vineyard Horse Council had a Hunter Pace through the state forest this weekend.
September 12, 2022