July is prime season for shorebirds and summer residents. It is also the season for baby birds, and adult birds are busy bringing food to their young. Southbound migrants are also starting to appear.
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June is the season of roses, either growing wild on the beach or landscaped in Island yards. Now is the time to replant window boxes and dooryard pots, replacing cold-hardy pansies and Johnny jump-ups with their heat-loving stand-ins: geraniums, impatiens and nasturtiums. Time to put out tomatoes,...
June 16, 2024
Under a grand tent on the lawn of Edgartown’s Dr. Daniel Fisher House, Vineyarders feasted on cuisine from the Island’s popular eateries Thursday evening at the 38th annual Taste of the Vineyard.
June 15, 2024
Last night the Celtics claimed their third consecutive win against the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals, and Islanders and tourists alike gathered in bars and restaurants to watch the boys in green inch one step closer to their record-setting 18th NBA championship.
June 13, 2024
Winners of the 2024 Best of the Vineyard awards were announced Wednesday, at the summer kickoff event hosted by the Martha’s Vineyard Magazine, the sponsor of the annual readers’ choice contest.
June 13, 2024
Foodies descended on the Winnetu Oceanside Resort for the Food and Wine Festival. The event featured over 50 Island and international chefs.
June 11, 2024
Family, friends and the Island community welcomed the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School class of 2024 with raucous cheers as the students made their way into the Tabernacle Sunday afternoon for this year’s graduation ceremony.
June 10, 2024
It is early in June that we again become besotted with light, the longer into the evening the better. The red ball that rises earlier each crisp morning turns golden and gilds the Island, then suffuses the day with piercing clarity until it departs in a rainbow of farewell beyond Aquinnah.
June 9, 2024
Rainbow-clad Islanders gathered Saturday for the Vineyard’s Pride parade. The parade began at the Island Queen dock and then wove up Circuit avenue, culminating in Ocean Park. A large contingent of people walked in the parade and many more cheered from storefronts and patios
June 9, 2024
The Agricultural Society fairgrounds were abuzz on Saturday as West Tisbury Farmers’ Market vendors lined up their trucks, knocked the dust off pop-up tents, and laid out folding tables to kick off the season.
June 8, 2024
Islanders turned out under beautiful sunny skies at the season’s inaugural First Friday event in Vineyard Haven. The day-long festival began with an art market along Beach street extension and moved to Owen Park where food and music kept them full and dancing.
June 8, 2024
The Martha's Vineyard Regional High School class of 2024 will graduate June 9, at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs. The diverse group of students are remembered at their school as thoughtful, hardworking, and eager to engage in the community around them.
June 6, 2024
It was a blizzard of smiles and armfuls of Dilly Bars at the Dairy Queen's opening Monday.
June 4, 2024
Faculty, friends and relatives gathered at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School Sunday to celebrate the seven high school graduates of the class of 2024.
June 3, 2024
June is the month of bursting colors and beguiling aromas, and now we are on the threshold of summer. The new season officially arrives a few weeks from now, but Memorial Day often is a truer marker of the Vineyard’s summer, and truer yet are the warm days and cool nights of early June.
June 2, 2024
Island Housing Trust along with numerous other Island groups have completed construction on four affordable apartments at Carl Widdis Way in Aquinnah.
May 30, 2024
Year in and out, the Vineyard explodes in color in May. As May opens, the world comes alive again. Spring has arrived.
May 29, 2024