A group of the Island’s hockey enthusiasts gather at the Martha’s Vineyard Ice Arena to shoot the bull and shoot the puck.
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After Saturday's blizzard, Sunday brought sunshine, cold temperatures and a stunning blanket of white all over the Island — along with lots of digging out, sleigh riding and tentative walks on slippery streets.
January 30, 2022
It seems such a constant that we notice it most when it ceases. The wind swirls in from the sea and combs the Vineyard in all seasons.
January 30, 2022
Wind-driven snow was falling heavily on the Vineyard Saturday morning as a powerful blizzard landed on the Vineyard.
January 29, 2022
It is these concerns of the day that turn us to poets and philosophers to define the importance of the coming of any new year: Housman reflected on the "beauty of the death-struck year."
January 27, 2022
New cases of Covid-19 are on the decline following a surge that saw record case counts.
January 27, 2022
Winter birds are settled in on the Vineyard, and feeders are busier in January as birds look for reliable sources of food in snow and cold temperatures.
January 25, 2022
For the second year, the PA Club expanded beyond its Portuguese and American traditions to include the gathering of the Scottish clans with a Burns Nicht food pickup.
January 24, 2022
Ice skating purists this weekend bypassed the indoor rink and headed straight for Edgartown's Jernegan Pond, one of the first to ice over as cold gripped the Vineyard.
January 24, 2022
This past week the crispness of winter has settled in, we think.
January 23, 2022
It’s been a weird weekend. First came Saturday’s bitter cold — bitter, at least, by Island standards. Then came Sunday’s thaw, and Islanders stepped outside for the first time.
January 17, 2022
The Vineyard is justifiably proud of its history as a place apart from the mainland, a place where African Americans were welcomed when they were not elsewhere.
January 16, 2022
The storm storm over, Vineyard children wasted no time grabbing their parents and heading to Sweetened Water Farm to get in some downhill runs.
January 10, 2022
The Vineyard in January. Not as many people see her then. Putting on hats and gloves replaces pulling on bathing suits and a walk on the beach may find you alone instead of weaving through pockets of people on blankets. But the beauty remains.
January 9, 2022
The wonders of snow falling up-Island fascinates and enchants us. Henry David Thoreau perhaps phrased it best: "How full of creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated. I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat!"
January 8, 2022
Snow is the companion of open fields and peaceful land, of hearthsides and the gray shingle of Island homes, of rolling moors and stonewalls up-Island, of the coastline that is our boundary with the sea.
January 7, 2022
More than 4,000 rapid home Covid-19 test kits were given out Tuesday as part of a federal government distribution, coordinated by Island Healthcare and the Island boards of health.
January 5, 2022