This weekend serves notice that summer is truly upon us, complete with glittering bright days on the beach and cool evening breezes for cookout comfort.
Photography
Resident winter birds are plentiful in February during the stretch between winter and spring, and northbound migrants begin to arrive.
February 27, 2020
Early voting begins today on Martha’s Vineyard in the run-up to the much-watched Super Tuesday presidential primary day next week.
February 24, 2020
On the Island, we measure and treasure the months of quietude, the resting period before the approach to the summer season begins.
February 23, 2020
During the holiday weekend the place to be was the Performing Arts Center for the regional high school's production of Big Fish. Playing four shows to packed house, the cast included nearly 50 students, along with some adults, a live orchestra, a mermaid, an elephant and so much more.
February 17, 2020
Since the darkest days of the winter solstice, more than half an hour of light has already been added to each Island day. Almost two months, already, have been subtracted from the term of this winter.
February 16, 2020
The Ritz serves as the center of it all — making live music one of the few Vineyard activities that are truly year-round and accessible. And Johnny Hoy and the Bluefish are regulars at the Circuit ave club.
February 15, 2020
Vineyard Gazette photographers won five awards for excellence in journalism by the New England Newspaper and Press Association this weekend.
February 10, 2020
From calm to stormy, gray to colorful, the landscape carves its own shape each season. Each hour brings a new turn to the potter's wheel, be it a weathered shingle or a wave crashing upon a rock or a colorful buoy taking a time out upon the sand.
February 9, 2020
Streets, beaches, trails, dockside — they all take on a different character when not populated with the human character.
February 1, 2020
Only five days left in January and the Island now enters a final run through the back side of winter. The weather of our wintry season has been anything but predictable to this point. All the patterns seem confused and perhaps it will remain so until the gathering of another Vineyard spring.
January 26, 2020
A little taste of winter is just about perfect on these still mild January days. The cold and snow will come soon enough, we're sure.
January 23, 2020
For people who frequent land bank properties, the experience is more than just getting some exercise, it’s about getting back in touch with the core character of the Island — what made people fall in love with it in the first place.
January 22, 2020
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. Send bird sightings to birds@mvgazette.com and follow the latest avian activity through the Gazette Bird News column.
January 22, 2020
This week, winter has shown us the most amiable of smiles. There's no holding a New England winter to any constancy; its whims are enshrined in folklore and all our memories.
January 19, 2020
The Tisbury School's fifth through eighth grade classes returned to their homerooms after a semester at the regional high school.
January 14, 2020
Snow has a way of inviting us to see anew as it opens new vistas, especially in the deep woods, which it seems to open up even as it decks them in white.
January 12, 2020