November brings cooler weather and the arrival of winter residents, especially waterfowl. Transient migrants continue to be found, including some summer resident species, though they appear in newer numbers.
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MV Youth announces its list of 2024 scholarship recipients.
April 30, 2024
Oak Bluffs parade and opening day ceremonies herald a new season for Martha's Vineyard Little League.
April 29, 2024
April begins her departure, a stage setter stepping aside now for May to make its grand entrace.
April 26, 2024
Unofficially the first poet laureate of the Island was Dionis Coffin Riggs, who began hosting a poetry group at the Cleaveland House in West Tisbury in 1960. Here is Dionis’s poem Wait, Spring, which was published in the April 19, 1996 Gazette:
April 21, 2024
The spring migration is in full force in April as ummer visitors come north while winter residents depart. Osprey, greater yellowlegs, piping plovers and double-crested cormorants arrive with southerly winds.
April 17, 2024
Early. That’s the message of the Vineyard these days. Everything’s early and that translates to a kind of seasonal confusion. In the old days we didn’t need a calendar to tell the time of year.
April 14, 2024
The arrival of spring will lock the sun on the Island side of the equator for the next six months and this is the real news of this seasonal moment.
April 11, 2024
Democracy at the ground level — in a grammar school gym, an historic whaling church and a performing arts center — began last night when a trio of town meetings opened the political season on the Vineyard.
April 10, 2024
Vineyarders gathered at libraries, shorelines, town streets, rooftops and in backyards. They huddled on beach chairs, sat on Lucy Vincent Beach rocks, the Big Bridge and anywhere else that offered prime viewing spots.
April 8, 2024
Hundreds of people crowded into the regional high school gym Sunday afternoon, filling the bleachers and sidelines for the memorial scholarship basketball tournament in honor of Waylon Madison Sauer, who died in a car accident this fall.
April 8, 2024
Albert Fischer weaves a love story at the memorial for his wife, Linda, to the Chilmark Community Center S.R.O crowd.
April 8, 2024
The parade of flowers are in bloom with daffodils flamboyantly leading the way, the grass is greening up nicely, and the air is warmer. It's an April morning, and everything is new.
April 7, 2024
The Martha's Vineyard Charter School students are brining the magic to the Grange Hall in West Tisbury with their spring play: Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic. The show is an ironic take on the Harry Potter stories.
April 5, 2024
The line-up for the March jam included Kate Taylor, Rick B and the Slip Time Ensemble, Setsunai, Lucy Mayhew, Jemima James, Willy Mason, Ben Taylor, John O'Toole, Ben Robinson, David Stanwood and many more Island musicians.
April 1, 2024
A crowd gathered at the Flying Horses this weekend for the grand reopening to catch a glimpse of the work done during the off-season, and to get a chance at catching the coveted brass ring.
April 1, 2024