Another week, another western stray near Squibnocket Pond.

Holly Gleason’s new book, Prine on Prine: Interviews and Encounters with John Prine, lets the celebrated singer/songwriter who died in 2020 tell his story in his way.

Pathways Arts takes up residence in the Chilmark Tavern after it shuts its doors in the fall. The building is then transformed from a bustling restaurant to an eclectic off-season arts venue.

The West Tisbury select board voted to form a committee to investigate building needs at the town’s public safety building on State Road.

The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School committee has vowed to continue its legal fight with the Oak Bluffs planning board, but paying for the court battle could be complicated.

Then out across the ocean, Martha’s Vineyard came in view, and St. Nick suggested landing, to all his reindeer crew, in Ocean Park in Oak Bluffs, when they above it flew.

Robert Solow, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, longtime professor at MIT, winner of the Presidential Medal for Freedom in 2014 and Chilmark summer resident since 1962, died on Dec. 21

If you are looking for something in the sky mindful of the Christmas Star you'll need to get up early in the morning. The brighest planet in the sky, Venus, is high in the southeastern sky well before sunrise. Venus is in the zodiacal constellation Libra and it is well placed this winter for viewing any morning. Enjoy the moment now, for Venus will start appearing lower and lower in the eastern sky each morning ahead.

Venus is getting farther from us and it is only slightly going to get fainter. By May, the planet will be so low in the east to be difficult to spot before sunup.

The other night, while picking out a Christmas tree with my family, an older man approached me, holding a bouquet of holly branches. “I’m in love with your wife,” he told me.