I like the changes snow brings to a landscape: the crisp, invigorating air, the mystery of tracks in the snow, the silence before snowplows and sanders are out, the fragrance of wood fire smoke luring me indoors to warm up after a walk.

Richard D. Roy was arraigned on one count of assault and battery Feb. 7 in connection with a December incident that sent police on a manhunt in Chilmark.

As I learned firsthand over recent years, a critical component of this support must be sober living homes. These are the facilities that are meant to provide people with an opportunity to recover in a safe environment.

Against a backdrop of rising seas rising and receding shorelines, it feels as though the Vineyard gets a little smaller every year. But one town is actually a bit bigger than it once was.

A poem for winter.

The night my mother had died I slept on the lawn in a sleeping bag under the stars. I woke the next day and felt the same emptiness.

Anna Edey imagines a world with little need for fossil fuels, that provides us with all the comforts and technologies we currently expect and enjoy, includes ways to grow fresh food locally and allows us to keep using cars without harm to our air, soil or water.

The Vineyard Gazette Media Group announced a new development this week with two Island publications devoted exclusively to weddings. Martha's Vineyard Wedding, owned by Hurd Publishing, will become part of Martha's Vineyard Island Weddings.

This year, Martha’s Vineyard’s path has been severely disturbed by the sudden need to cope with a large increase in the school budget. Unfortunately it comes at a time when the school system has just achieved its goal of becoming one of the best locations in Massachusetts to provide children with an education.

How wonderful to see Shirley Mayhew’s monarch butterfly movie and to think that not so long ago the Vineyard sheltered so many monarchs on their migrations.