It looks like a scene from My Fair Lady in the cat room at the animal shelter these days. The majority of the residents are black and white tuxedos.

Congratulations to all the poets and musicians who participated in MVTV’s live event on April 30, the last day of poetry month.

Beach season is still a bit in the future, but bellies are going bare this weekend at the Vineyard Belly Dance Revue held at the Katharine Cornell Theatre.

Loïs Mailou Jones (11/3/1905 – 6/9/1998), the Harlem Renaissance artist and one of the first black women to receive international fame for her work, was also a longtime Vineyarder. In Linsey Lee’s book Vineyard Voices, Mrs. Jones said, “My career was really formed on this island when I was about seventeen. We used to swim at the Highland Beach, which is over there near where we lived.”

With the sun shining, everyone is out and about and getting ready for the season. It is amazing what a little sun can do to make one feel so much better.

I saw some deer on the side of the paved road by the lonely Bass cottage on the “other side of the road.” They weren’t doing much, just sort of milling about, and it looked liked they might want to talk.

The Martha's Vineyard Regional High School varsity girls’ tennis team’s stellar 7-0 record will be tested on its home turf.

Some up-Island residents are very much in appearance most late afternoons as the deer chow down on the new grass in many Chilmark fields.

Spring has finally arrived, with temperatures in the 60s this week and the return of many from off-Island.

Expanding operations at Island Grown Initiative’s Thimble Farm were a topic of concern among neighbors during a hearing at the Tisbury selectmen’s meeting Tuesday, when IGI president Sarah McKay appeared before the board to secure permits for four existing propane tanks.