Snowy owls are still hanging around and among the most reliable places to spot them are Norton Point Beach, Quansoo, the West Basin, and lately, East Chop and Ocean Park in Oak Bluffs.

What to do when the mouth is a bit too big and the burn not as efficient as it should be? Bring 1000 pounds of clay down from Vermont, plus the original oven maker himself, and start again from scratch. That’s what Flatbread pizza is planning to do this Friday when they begin rebuilding their clay oven, and they are going to need a lot of help. That much clay doesn’t mix itself.

A plan to reconfigure the town beachfront at Squibnocket could be a model for future coastal restoration projects, concludes a report by Greg Berman, a coastal scientist with the Woods Hole Sea Grant Cooperative Extension. But he advised a go-slow approach and said more study is needed.

I’ve been catching up on my reading, actually getting to sections of the newspaper I usually skim.

My fascination with the moon started when I was four years old. My mother said would wake up in the middle of the night and say to her, “There is the moon, isn’t it pretty?”

A new location near the Black Dog Cafe on State Road is set to open in the coming weeks. Heavy demand on the Island for Benjamin Moore paints prompted the decision, the store owners said.

Community Services is the largest human services provider on Martha's Vineyard.

The Martha's Vineyard Hospital hosts its annual health fair from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, March 15.

Three Island students were named to the fall 2013 dean’s list at Boston University.

Yongbum Park of Chilmark received a Doctor of Philosophy in Constructive Theological Ethics from Boston University in January 2014.