Edgartown Town Column: Feb. 5

It is always nice and uplifting to see the blue sky. The temperature has been back and forth, but it was in the 40s and walking outside was bearable.

West Tisbury Town Column: Feb. 5

Nicole Cabot is celebrating a storybook ending to a family legend.

Vineyard Haven Town Column: Feb. 5

Exciting news for our food options. Chef Carlos Montoya and Sheenagh Caridi have purchased our beloved Little House restaurant.

All Aboard for Anything Goes

The high school production of Anything Goes opens Thursday, Feb. 13. The show follows the antics of gangsters, an heiress and a nightclub singer as they board an ocean liner headed to London from New York City.

Deep Winter Fishing Blues Is Brightened by Fly Tying Tutorials

For more than 30 years the Martha’s Vineyard Rod & Gun Club has held fly tying classes for fishermen of all levels.

Traffic Study Highlights Dangerous Crash Spots

Some of the Island’s most notorious stretches of asphalt are coming under scrutiny as Vineyard planners attempt to make roads safer. 

Oak Bluffs Investigates Chimney Fire

No one was hurt Wednesday after the fire started at 11 Johns Way. 

A Beacon of Hope Among the Worries

Sometimes at night I’m awakened from a dark foreboding nightmare, not sure of where I am in the world.

In the Mood for a Wander Down Glimmerglass Way

It is also far from the time when the occasional crocus appears, though rumor has it that snowdrops have been seen in Vineyard Haven.

Six More Weeks

From the February 5, 1943 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:

Although Groundhog Day brought some slight variation in the weather program, the celebrated woodchuck experienced no difficulty in seeing his shadow, and this, if the ancient belief can be credited, winter is by no means over. Groundhog, or Candlemas, Day, is supposed to mark mid-winter, when the older people would check their winter stores to see if there remained,

“Half of the meant and half of they hay,” and watch the weather for the portents in which they believed. For, as they said:

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