The Friends of Mill Pond believe that the survival of West Tisbury’s Mill Pond is not simply a matter of aesthetics or sentimentality.

Barbara Murphy and I met in the fall of 1976 when I began teaching at MVRHS and she was completing her first year there. I was teaching social studies and for Barbara, it was Spanish. We quickly became fast friends and for all these years remained so.

I learned today of the passing of Barbara Murphy, my beloved MVRHS Spanish teacher, and later my colleague and department chair, friend and fellow Up-Islander, mi querida.

I will always remember you telling Greg Scotten that I “just got back from studying in Salamanca.” Thus, with your loving, kind and direct blessing I became part of the MVRHS orbit to teach Spanish with you.

From the March 5, 1954 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: This year it seems to have been the pinkletinks instead of a lion or a lamb, which ushered in the month of March.

Falmouth Academy is discussing the possibility of providing five-day boarding for students who live on Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. 

Editors, Vineyard Gazette;

How on God’s green earth can a task force made up of groups such as the Vineyard Conservation Society promote the clear-cutting of 175 acres worth of healthy white pine trees from the state forest?

The proponents of this deforestation plan say it is needed (1) for fire safety and (2) because white pine trees are not native to this Island. Both arguments are flimsy and far outweighed by the benefits of leaving the trees as they are.

On a recent Sunday morning, my sons and husband gathered around me, all eyes on my phone. Google had compiled images from 2020 into an unsolicited story. Warm with nostalgia, we were cast back.

Venus is ever so quickly slipping closer to the western horizon each night. The brightest planet that looks like an airplane approaching with landing lights has dropped considerably in the last few weeks. It will drop even more in March.

Homelessness is getting worse on the Island with 56 people counted as unhoused in late January. This high count comes at a time when the winter shelter is being forced to move from the MV Community Services campus because of construction and is looking for a new location.

About a mile west of the post office on the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road, a new neighborhood is taking shape with a $68 million nursing home at its heart.