March. It’s a quixotic month. Some days it smiles in the way of spring and makes the pussy willows and the snowdrops bloom and the forsythia edge toward budding. Sometimes it growls in a forbidding way, letting everyone know that winter hasn’t quite gone by.
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A weekend blizzard pelted Martha's Vineyard with snow, ice and hurricane-force wind gusts Friday night and early Saturday. The Martha’s Vineyard Shipyard clocked a peak wind gust of 83 miles per hour overnight Friday.
February 11, 2013
High winds and heavy snow covered the Island in a weekend storm.
February 9, 2013
The National Weather Service issued blizzard warnings for all of Eastern and Southeastern Massachusetts, with strong north-northeast winds expected to gust up to 70 miles per hour. There is also a coastal flood warning and predictions for 30-foot seas by Friday night.
February 8, 2013
Drummers, singers, clarinetists — the Oak Bluffs School children proved they had plenty of skills at the 15th annual talent show.
February 7, 2013
It was an evening fit for an iconic Scotsman, the celebrated bard Robert Burns.
February 2, 2013
Volunteer firefighters from Oak Bluffs, Edgartown and the Martha’s Vineyard Airport battled a fire in frigid conditions for two and a half hours early Saturday evening in the airport business park.
January 27, 2013
Chili cooks and partakers descended on the Portuguese American Club Saturday for the annual Big Chili Contest which benefits the Red Stocking Fund.
January 27, 2013
Once a year, The Trustees of Reservations leads a hike through the property known as The Brickyard— conservation restricted land that lies in between Menemsha Hills and Great Rock Bight which was once the site of a functioning brick works industry.
January 25, 2013
The wooden tents of the Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association received six inches of snow this week.
January 25, 2013
With frigid temperatures hovering belowing freezing, Vineyarders headed out to enjoy the blanket of snow that fell Monday eveneing.
January 23, 2013
Following a busy weekend of football games, inaugurations and the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, the Island woke on Tuesday to several inches of snow and sunshine.
January 22, 2013
Wind blew most of the snow away from Lambert's Cove Beach on Friday morning, leaving behind small snow dunes and scattered patches of white by sunset.
January 18, 2013
From the gleaming russet wood of pint-sized instruments, to the shining buckles on children’s dress shoes, to the carefully-practiced notes of the Hallelujah Chorus, Thursday night’s All-Island Winter Strings Concert was full of polish.
January 18, 2013
Islanders woke up to several inches of snow Friday morning - as well as plenty of sunshine - both welcome sights after a gray week.
January 18, 2013
Oak Bluffs woke up to blue sky and white snow this morning, adding a lightness to what seemed like a very gray week on the Island.
January 18, 2013