Edgartown celebrated Mother's Day weekend with the annual dog parade organized by the Animal Shelter of Martha's Vineyard.

May 14, 2019

Any observer of the human scene would have to admit that this week has brought a dramatic acceleration in practically every aspect of Island life.

May 12, 2019

The Charter School embraces the journey of the Hobbit, performing the classic tale on Friday, May 10 at 6 p.m. and Saturday, May 11 at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.

May 7, 2019

Restoring Lobsterville Beach: Volunteers turned out for beach grass planting project sponsored by the Wampanoag tribe natural resources department.

May 7, 2019

Dockside, farmside, brookside, harborside, pondside, roadside, leeside, sunnyside - it's still rock and roll to me.

May 4, 2019

Baseball diamonds around the Island were busy on Saturday for Little League opening day. From T-ball to the Major League, boys and girls of all sizes, along with their parents and grandparents, embraced a new season of baseball fever.

April 29, 2019

Goodbye April, hello May. Goodbye showers, hello flowers. Goodbye gray, hello green. Goodbye quiet, hello hustle and bustle. Goodbye closed, hello open.

April 27, 2019

This year marked the 27th annual Vineyard Conservation Society beach cleanup, and included more than two dozen beaches.

April 20, 2019

Each spring, with its arrival, reminds us that while our miseries are bounded in time, bliss knows no such limits. Whether the central focus of our celebration is Easter, Passover or the reckless beauty of a sunstruck spring day, the text for this weekend is one and the same.

April 17, 2019

The osprey are back, pinkletinks are singing, and April showers fall on white pines and choppy harbors.

April 17, 2019

The spring migration is in full force in April as summer visitors come north while winter residents depart.

April 17, 2019

Camera in hand, photographer Tim Johnson wanders the Island.

April 14, 2019

The Flying Horses carousel opened its 144th season on Saturday, and hundreds of kids and parents flocked to the carousel to wait in line, choose a horse, and reach for the coveted brass ring that allows for an extra ride free of charge.

April 13, 2019

Town budgets, school spending, plastic bottles, an historic airfield hangar, toxic jellyfish, and debate over creating a housing bank. Annual town meeting season began last night and covered a broad spectrum of questions put before voters.

April 10, 2019

The Island's color scheme is now green and yellow with reborn lawns and farm fields, clumps of daffodils bursting into bloom, witch hazel brighteningproperties, and forsythia ready to turn with the next warm, sunny day in dooryards across the Island.

April 7, 2019

Steamship Authority crew and Menemsha Coast Guard performed a full evacuation of the ferry Nantucket in Fairhaven Monday morning. It was only a drill.

April 2, 2019

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