Second Nature Designs Inc. purchased 427 State Road in Vineyard Haven from Michael Donaroma for $625,000 on March 17.

The 25th annual Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival opened on Wednesday and Thursday with four documentaries and one drama, with each film setting a hopeful tone.

Leaf blowers are on nearly every town warrant as we head into town meeting season. And the Osprey are back! The osprey are magnificent fish-eating birds of prey and are an iconic sign of spring and warmer temperatures on Martha’s Vineyard.

The Shark Is Broken, actor and playwright Ian Shaw’s behind-the-scenes take on the filming of Jaws in 1974, is finally coming to the Vineyard this summer after successful runs on Broadway and overseas.

The story of Reverend Denniston and his family is currently on display at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum in an exhibit called Finding Our Way Home: The Denniston Family and 11 Masonic Avenue. 

As the Vineyard approaches its annual town meeting season, a highly-debated bylaw aimed at curbing the noise of leaf blowers is on nearly every town’s warrant.

I first met Phyllis Meras walking down Music street in West Tisbury on what I have come to know as her daily sojourn.

How often have I responded with a well-practiced shameful shrug because of something I said, or something I didn’t say, or because I showed up wearing this instead of that.

In the weekend before his 83rd birthday, Frank Corey of Temahigan avenue, was delivering the evening paper from house to house.

You know that annoying sound all too well — the ear-piercing whirr of a leaf blower coming from your neighbor’s backyard.