Mary Oliver
The wind wags its many tails. And in the evening the piled firewood shifts a little, longing to be on its way. —Mary Oliver
The wind wags its many tails. And in the evening the piled firewood shifts a little, longing to be on its way. —Mary Oliver
An old oak tree that arches over Music street in West Tisbury will be left alone despite its declining condition, selectmen decided this week.
The brightest planet in the Summer evening night sky was Venus. In November, we will see Venus return to its important role but as a morning planet. Venus will be our winter morning planet. Today is an important day for Venus. The planet is in conjunction. Venus is directly, though not precisely, between our Earth…
A motorcycle operator was seriously injured Sunday evening when his motorcycle crashed into a house on Skiff avenue in Vineyard Haven.
The $31 million Martha’s Vineyard Museum restoration project is weeks away from becoming a reality.
Dr. Michael Michotek left the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital last week, causing ripples of concern in the Island community.
A new political advertisement born on the Vineyard features eight female Democratic candidates running in congressional races across the nation.
Early voting is underway and hundreds of Islanders have already cast ballots with less than two weeks to go until the Nov. 6 election.
Bridget Tobin was the supreme commander of the Steamship Authority as far as the Vineyard was concerned.
The collaborative talks now underway between leaders in Oak Bluffs and Tisbury portend good things for the future.
On Nov. 6, voters in Dukes County will choose between T. George Davis and Anthony Piland for a six-year term as Dukes County clerk of courts.
Molly Elizabeth Hazard Peters graduated from the International Limited-Residency MFA Photography Program at the Hartford Art School on August 11.
Anyone looking for a hypoallergenic dog? If so come and meet sweet Bella.
Tisbury and Oak Bluffs are beginning to talk across town lines about sharing some services, beginning with a building commissioner
The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $337,192.50 for the business week ending on Friday, Oct. 19, 2018.
Dr. Michotek is an extraordinary doctor as well as a person with enormous compassion, warmth and intelligence.
The renovation of Squibnocket beach is an enormous success.
Four months ago I got to know Lenny Verville of Chapman Cole and Gleason Funeral Home in a more direct way.
This year’s deer hunting season has begun, and many options are being considered for how to lessen the impact of the continuing infestation of deer ticks on Martha’s Vineyard.
The Island is not entirely without its fragmentary record of oddities, tragic, humorous, or criminal in character.
The first installment of this season’s Tuesdays in the Newsroom series featured Wellfleet Wildlife Sanctuary scientist and sea turtle expert Karen Dourdeville.
With a large show of support from the town fire, police and EMS, Tisbury’s new police chief Mark Saloio was sworn in Tuesday evening.
The Edgartown Public Library will celebrate Halloween with a performance by harpist and singer Áine Minogue on Saturday, Oct. 27 at 3 p.m.
Halloween looms around the corner on Wednesday, Oct. 31, but that doesn’t mean you have to wait until the witching hour to get spooky.
The Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse returns this weekend with another theatrical performance, this time based on the poetry of Sharon Olds.
Jason Willoughby, 33, of Vineyard Haven was indicted by a Dukes County grand jury last week on felony charges in a case that involves a fatal overdose from the powerful drug fentanyl.
The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School will change its cafeteria program beginning next year to be managed in house.
Four of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School fall sports teams have their sights set on postseason play.
I don’t know why last week’s freeze came as a surprise to me. It is the end of October afterall.
Dark matter and its sister, dark energy, go bump in the universe.
Old Jack Frost paid us a brief visit Monday morning. He vowed to be back real soon.
I hope you are pulling out your sewing kits and hot glue guns and making some creative costumes.
Some of us got a touch of frost on Sunday night and there was a layer of ice on the birdbaths.
Halloween is an evening for our towns’ children to gather for food, sweets and a parade of costumes.
Aquinnah feels more like early winter, with temperatures dipping into the 20s.
Kahina Van Dyke and Claudio Casarotti, trustees of the Inkwell House Realty Trust, purchased 46 Narragansett avenue in Oak Bluffs from Jane E. Lofgren and Paul F. Lofgren for $1,575,000 on Oct. 19.
On Sunday afternoon, deer-stuffed rabbits, rabbit-stuffed squirrels, boar, bluefish and more were all free for the sampling at the Wild Food Challenge. The only price was being brave enough to try.
Laura Marshard will serve a one-month suspension for misconduct following a decision by a single justice of the state Supreme Judicial Court.
Lines and standby lines formed on Tuesday morning as well-wishers headed to the Oak Bluffs Steamship Authority terminal to wish Bridget Tobin well on her retirement after 44 years.
The Community Baptist Church of Gay Head, the longest continually worshipping Native American congregation in the United States, celebrated its 325th anniversary on this past weekend.
One of the most impressive spectacles of the bird world is to be amidst a large swarm of tree swallows as they swirl, swoop and soar around you.
Throngs of music lovers crowded a closed down Circuit avenue in Oak Bluffs Saturday night to celebrate Island women in music.
A trip to my Island post office is like a church bean supper. Without the church. Without the supper.
Set in 2025 Los Angeles under a totalitarian regime of police round-ups and mass incarceration, Delusion by Proxy by Brooke Adams played to packed houses last weekend at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse.
After a 15-month hiatus, Island drivers can once again fuel up at the airport business park. The new station, called Northline Shell, is up and running.
A ribbon cutting at Smalley’s Knoll in Aquinnah Thursday marked continued progress for the affordable housing movement on the Vineyard.