We are now in the season of false spring, and the Steamship has been stymied by high winds. I hope it is clear sailing for you all this weekend.

Aquila Martha’s Vineyard recently opened its third location at the First Light Café at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, joining their two previous locations at the Gay Head Cliffs in Aquinnah and the YMCA in Oak Bluffs.

Lovely Pepper, a 10-month-old, female Plott hound, is our pet of the week.

The Edgartown annual town meeting is on Tuesday, April 9 at 7 p.m. at the Old Whaling Church.

There will be an information meeting on March 30 at 11 a.m. about the new affordable housing apartments created in Aquinnah by Island Housing Trust.

Services begin on Maundy Thursday.

The great grandson of the Universal Studios founders continues to formulate plans for a 50th anniversary Jaws festival on the Island, although concrete details are sparse.

The new offshore wind energy project will bring up to 84 new turbines in an area about 16 miles south of the Vineyard.

Steamship general manager Robert Davis went to Washington, D.C. to talk to lawmakers about the proposed right whale protective measures as conservation groups call for a hard implementation deadline.

After around three years at the head of the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank’s goat grazing operation, Island farmer Zachary Jesse is hanging up his hat as lead goat herder.