A group of the Island’s hockey enthusiasts gather at the Martha’s Vineyard Ice Arena to shoot the bull and shoot the puck.
A group of the Island’s hockey enthusiasts gather at the Martha’s Vineyard Ice Arena to shoot the bull and shoot the puck.
Who says you can't downhill ski on the Vineyard?
The Sunday snowflakes danced with the statues at the Field Gallery, covered stacked lobster pots in Menemsha, and clung to sheep's thick wool coats.
Snow is the companion of open fields and peaceful land, of hearthsides and the gray shingle of Island homes, of sledding hills and stonewalls up-Island, of the coastline that is our boundary with the sea.
Snow has a way of inviting us to see anew as it opens new vistas, which it seems to open up even as it decks them in white.
High tides and storm surge inundated the Island on Tuesday, washing over coastal dunes and forcing road closures after Monday's winter northeaster.
Regional high school students won nine Gold Key photography awards at the 2021 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Winners move on to the national competition held in New York city.
The northeaster dumping snow across the region battered the Vineyard with high winds, sleet and early morning snowfall. It is expected to last into Tuesday afternoon.
January on the Vineyard and the crispness of winter has settled in, we think. Now is the time to remember the cozy joys of the snug world we call indoors.
They come armed with snow shovels, long underwear and blades of sharpened steel on their feet.
This year with the pandemic, the normally quiet down-Island main streets have turned ghostly, as the off-season tests the Vineyard winter economy and social fabric and in a way it has never been tested before.
The Vineyard's many avian winter residents have arrived. Check out the Bird News column for the latest, and don't forget to send your bird sightings to birds@mvgazette.com.
First real snow. It was a gentle snowfall and it arrived Tuesday afternoon. This brief storm worked its magic across the Vineyard countryside. Large flakes fell and soon the Island was covered. By dawn the temperature rose and the melt began.
The Scottish Society of Martha's Vineyard braved the cold to hand out Scottish delicacies in honor of Burns Nicht at the PA Club in Oak Bluffs.
Only eight 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.
Beachgoers still flock to Lucy Vincent Beach in the off-season, braving the wind and chill to walk the fine-sand shore, and look for treasure among the wrack line.
Winter's purpose now is to move us forward toward those days of thaw, toward the arrival of spring.