The Edgartown Croquet Club has been on the Island in one form or another since 1981, a continuation of many earlier clubs on Martha’s Vineyard.

Please, support the Massachusetts bills H. 3245, S. 2197 and S. 2189 that will ban traveling circuses with elephants, primates, big cats and giraffes from coming into the state. Please, contact your representatives and ask them to support these bills.

The life of a circus animal is horrific, traveling from town to town in trailers in extreme heat, in small spaces where they can’t move, chained 23 hours a day, and then brought into a tent with bright lights and screaming crowds. The threat of being hit with a bullhook or whip is constant.

Clemente Hernandez, 41, of Vineyard Haven, was arraigned on March 11 charges in Tisbury of malicious destruction of property, assault, assault and battery on a police officer and resisting arrest.

The million dollar question in the recent vote for the new Chilmark School principal position is why not choose the exceptionally qualified, thoughtful, bright Island candidate with guaranteed housing and personal historical knowledge of the place and its culture?

Most of us complain about the din caused by gas-powered leaf-blowers. Now Edgartown voters have an opportunity on April 9 to put a stop to them.

Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t.

A few tree swallows spent the winter here, but this week’s sightings are not in the same locations.

The only thing predictable about New England weather is its ability to change. After a few lovely spring days, we are back to rain and wind.

Midnight Taco, which previously operated next to the Sand Bar in downtown Oak Bluffs, will reopen as a 49-seat restaurant with a patio this year across the street in the former Juice By the Sea location. 

When herring start making an appearance on the Wampanoag Tribe’s Department of Natural Resources Herring Creek camera it’s a sure sign spring has nearly sprung.