Back when I was in sixth grade, the ferry ramp was a bunch of wooden planks bolted together.

We spotted the first osprey this weekend, soaring high above our home and calling out in its distinctive cry.

Caleb Enos has been a member of the Chappaquiddick Ferry crew for more than a decade.

After a week of warmer days, we are plunged back into winter, with nighttime lows dipping into the teens.

The idea for a flagpole at the ferry point on Chappaquiddick was presented to me by the late Roy Gunderson probably more than a dozen years ago.

The Chappy Beach Club is hiring lifeguards for the 2021 summer season, June 1 through Sept. 8.

This is the in-between time of year when it comes to dirt roads.

With the arrival of slightly warmer daytime temperatures and a bit of rain, the snow that covered the ground for the last week has disappeared.

A few years ago, right about in the middle of the same month that we are in now, I was standing on the wharf looking out at the harbor.

With the cold snap last week, we all waited patiently, hoping a few nights of very low temperatures would finally freeze Brine’s Pond.