Tomorrow Saturday night, the gibbous moon appears in close proximity to the the bright red planet Mars. The two are in the zodiacal constellation Gemini. Mars has lost a lot of its brilliance from just a few months ago. Mars is getting farther away from us, over 100,000 miles away now and that distance is growing, thus it is getting dimmer.

Mars and the Moon are a nice looking assembly. You'll have no trouble noticing Mars with its reddish glow. Not far away are the two brightest stars in Gemini, Pollux and Castor. Pollux is the closest to the moon and the brighter of the two.

Two students at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School won national gold medals at the 2025 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.

As I walk along a wooded lane
worn down by time
I wonder:

Forty five Island businesses gathered behind tables at the regional high school Wednesday, speaking to students about various job opportunities for the upcoming summer and beyond.

A real estate advertisement which appeared last week read: “Classic Vineyard shingled cottage. Totally restored. Eel Pond location, $375,000.”

At a cabinet meeting on Monday, March 24, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced that she was “going to eliminate FEMA.”

The recent decision by the Federal Veterans Administration not to renew the Veterans Readjustment Counseling Contract with the Martha’s Vineyard Community Services (MVCS) will, in my opinion, have serious implications for Island veterans and their families.

There are four very good reasons why we should all vote yes to phase out gas powered leaf blowers, a regulation that will be on the docket this spring at our town meetings.

I would remind those who are opposed to the phasing out of gas-powered leaf blowers of an important fact: the amount of fossil fuels on earth is finite.

In 2014, our committee was appointed by the West Tisbury select board to meet voter directives.