Someone wrote to the Gazette not so long ago with a few observations about this time of year, thoughts as appropriate today as they were when they were first published:
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Farm stands brimmed with early produce: strawberries, colorful lettuces, feathery herbs and Island-grown asparagus as the West Tisbury Farmers' Market opened for the season at the Agricultural Hall grounds on Saturday morning.
June 12, 2022
On beaches and at the edge of farm fields, rosa rugosa is the flower of the month — great drifts of them, strewn across the landscape like a scene brushed by Monet. Daisies are also in bloom. Baltimore orioles and finches decorate bird feeders with their brilliant oranges and yellows.
June 12, 2022
A Menemsha mainstay reopened Saturday morning and Betsy Larsen beckoned customers inside the newly rebuilt Larsen’s Fish Market after a winter-long construction project.
June 11, 2022
The Martha's Vineyard Regional High School class of 2022 will graduate June 12, 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 7, 2022
On Sunday, the largest graduating class in the Martha's Vineyard Public Charter School's 25-year history walked in to the tune of Tongue Tied by GroupLove and was welcomed by a standing ovation from the crowd.
June 6, 2022
It is early in June that we again become besotted with light, the longer into the evening the better.
June 5, 2022
Members of the Vineyard community marked Memorial Day with a parade to honor all those who have died in service to the country.
May 30, 2022
Memorial Day weekend is here, the ferries are full, the shops open, and the streets crowded as everyone officially says goodbye to the off-season.
May 30, 2022
On Friday Vineyard school children walked to the sea, to the water’s edge where they set an appropriate tone for this long holiday weekend.
May 29, 2022
The best indication of May's arrival is color: the pink flowers of cherry trees, red tulips and white picket fences, drifts of bright yellow daffodils, and the vibrant emerald green of lawns and farm fields.
May 28, 2022
Stepping off from the Tisbury School, students made their way through town, heading up Main street toward Owen Park for their annual march to the sea to honor those lost on Memorial Day.
May 27, 2022
Songs, solemn words, and flowers paid tribute to the fallen servicemen and women who served our country in the Edgartown School's Memorial Day salute
May 27, 2022
Chilmark School students gathered at Coast Guard Station Menemsha, where Coast Guard officers explained the significance of Memorial Day and then joined them on the march down to the harbor.
May 27, 2022
The Island is quiet before the sun rises over Nantucket Sound on these magical Vineyard mornings in May. Soon the workforce will head out and morning walkers will tie up their laces and take their morning constitutional walk as the chorus of birdsong begins.
May 27, 2022
The Island rushes on, into this holiday weekend that marks the unofficial opening a new season, the beginning of yet another public love affair with Martha’s Vineyard.
May 26, 2022
Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School students staged a walkout at noon Thursday in solidarity with the victims of the school shooting in Uvalde, Tex.
May 26, 2022