While winter winds still whip across the fields, the Vineyard’s high school athletes are braving the elements and taking on the challenge of spring sports in not-so-springlike weather.
With a few weeks of practice under their wings, the competition began last week.
The beach plums along Sengekontacket Pond shows signs of a remarkable display, migrant birds are appearing, and daffodils are blooming. It's May on the Vineyard.
The journey from the Edgartown School to Memorial Wharf is a longstanding one.
Chilmark School students gathered at Coast Guard Station Menemsha, where Coast Guard officers spoke and then joined them on the march down to the harbor. Students read prepared words, performed Taps and tossed flowers into the sea to remember the fallen.
Breaking from their tradition of marching to Vineyard Haven harbor, Tisbury School students took time out in the school yard to honor fallen veterans as Memorial Day weekend begins.
After 15 months of pandemic lockdown, the Vineyard is readying for its first full Memorial Day reopening in two years
Chilmark voters approved an $11 million project to build a joint firehouse and EMS building and breezed through a flurry of school spending articles and capital improvement projects at their annual town meeting.
May arrives as do more seasonal migrants. A rare sighting of a golden crowned sparrow is reported, the first since 66 years ago.
Edgartown voters approved a $3 million project to overhaul Memorial Wharf and agreed to move forward with a project to install electric VTA bus chargers on Church street.
More than midway through May and milder weather is near. Vineyard weekends have been bustling, and in only a week it's Memorial Day weekend.
Tucked away in the woods of West Tisbury, the Polly Hill Arboretum has burst into bloom these past weeks. May is a wonderful time to visit and stroll the grounds.
West Tisbury voters exchanged spirited debate on both sides of an article asking to transfer a parcel of land to the town’s affordable housing committee.
The first few days of warm weather always feel like a gift, especially following a cold, gray spring.
Oak Bluffs kicked off the annual town meeting season on the Vineyard. Voters made their way through 46 articles on the warrant with moderator Jesse Law 3rd will presiding.
Green grass and colorful uniforms decorated the West Tisbury School grounds on Saturday as youth soccer emerged from the pandemic strong as ever and a whole lot of fun.
April bows out with a magnificent moon; May arrives in sunlight and expectation.
