We have had a string of less than ideal weather during recent Christmas Bird Counts.

Sol Cove Fischer Turner was born on New Year’s Day at home in Edgartown to parents Lila Fischer and Nic Turner.

Weather conditions on Christmas Eve were already bad and getting worse when the Steamship Authority made the call to cancel its remaining ferries that evening, general manager Robert Davis told the SSA port council on Tuesday.

Laura Silber is stepping down from the Coalition to Create the MV Housing Bank to work for the MVC.

The League of Women Voters of Martha’s Vineyard s sponsoring a candidate forum prior to the Tisbury special election on Jan. 9.

With the $5.6 million purchase last month of a third offshore service vessel (OSV) from a Louisiana firm, the Steamship Authority has another new ferry to name.

It would be a long New Year’s Day, starting before dawn and ending in darkness. The birds rarely stayed put, and neither did the birders.

Known as PlumeStop, the project, which was completed this fall, seeks to stop the chemicals in their tracks, caging them underground before they reach the aquifer or other wells.

On Thursday, Dec. 22, the dynamic duo of Jeremy Smith and Karl Klein delivered their last press run, retiring from the job Mr. Smith first started when he was 26 years old.

The evening skies in the New Year will be filled with planets. Every visible planet, but Mercury, are appearing in our night sky. It is a parade across the evening sky, starting with Mars to the East. Next there is Jupiter and Saturn. Saturn is really close to Venus low in the southwestern sky after sunset.

Saturn and Venus are only visible for a short time before, together the two descend into the twilight.

Mars will be visited by a bright gibbous moon on Tuesday night. Or, you can look Monday night for them fairly close. They are in the zodiacal constellation Taurus.