The Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society provided shelter for barn animals and livestock during the cold snap this weekend.
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After mostly mild weather this year, the Vineyard has had its first snap of bitter cold. The temperature was -3 this morning, with the wind chill making it feel even colder.
February 4, 2023
A total of 19 student artists received acclaim this week, winning a combined 24 awards for their creative submissions to the 2023 Scholastic Art Awards competition.
February 3, 2023
In this 1970s documentary by John Dennehy, Vineyard fisherman and brothers David and Ed Willoughby go out on Cape Pogue and demonstrate how to drag for bay scallops.
February 2, 2023
It is the last few days of January and the Vineyard turns another page on the calendar and welcomes February. This month brought wildly fluctuating weather, with temperatures up to the fifties and plenty of rain.
January 29, 2023
Students and teachers from the West Tisbury School stood out in front of the school as emergency vehicles from West Tisbury, Chilmark and Aquinnah paraded by with flashing lights and sirens to celebrate both girl and boys basketball team's Island championship. Go Hawks!
January 28, 2023
The Vineyard's many avian winter residents have arrived.
January 24, 2023
This year marked the 36th year the Scottish Society has celebrated the birthday of Scottish poet Robert Burns, with this year’s celebration falling on his 264th birthday.
January 23, 2023
We’re about a third of the way through the Island’s cold season. But recent days of that traditional January thaw were enough to turn thoughts forward to the advent of spring, a time that will come just as surely as winter will pass.
January 22, 2023
Demolition inside the Tisbury School has cleared away nearly a century’s worth of accumulated renovations, revealing the original interior of a town landmark built during the depths of the Great Depression.
January 19, 2023
Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School students astounded judges and spectators alike with project presentations at the 24th annual Science and Engineering fair this Saturday.
January 17, 2023
Even if nothing were open in Menemsha, it would still be worth a trip in the quiet of January. It is worth it for the silence.
January 16, 2023
The January thaw has a tradition of its own. Weeks of freezing, Christmas snow — the pattern seemed to be clear. But suddenly raindrops have been a weekly presence and the thermometer settled in the forties and headed toward fifty. Disconcerting.
January 15, 2023
High school teams rounded into fine form at the halfway point of the winter sports season.
January 12, 2023
Whether they are traveling to Boston, the Caribbean or simply Cape Cod, winter travelers from the Vineyard all have one thing in common: the homecoming.
January 10, 2023
It’s time to make the coffee at home before heading out to enjoy a mild-ish Sunday on the Vineyard. Afternoon football games call us back to our couches and to put some logs on the fire.
January 8, 2023