These are dark days for the environment and I must admit that I have been hesitant to write an optimistic essay about our local efforts in addressing the climate change.

Blow me a kiss and as old as I will ever be I will still hear violins. Romance, that thin, sweet glaze that coats memory, mood and imagination remains as light as a giddy notion.

It is only a few years passage back to the day of solid fuel. Coal was principally used for all heating purposes for years before oil became usual.

The promise in a child / Rests in adult hands / A gift that never ends / For one generation / To improve upon the next.

One Bad Crab is coming to the Film Center in March. The documentary film was created by Vineyard Haven independent documentary filmmaker Sandy Cannon-Brown,

The boys hockey team has partnered with the Martha’s Vineyard Cancer Support Group to raise money through custom designed jerseys that will be worn during their game on Feb. 15.

Steamship Authority engineers are working to iron out some unexpected wrinkles in the performance of the new freight ferry, M/V Barnstable.

Jair F. Deoliveira Jr., 25, was arraigned on a Jan. 17 charge in Oak Bluffs of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14. His bail was set at $2,000 and he has a pretrial hearing on Feb. 14.

It’s love – when dogs rescued by Angels Helping Animals Worldwide meet their new Vineyard owners.

From its humble beginnings 23 years ago as Massachusetts’s first rural health clinic, Island Health Care has grown to treating 2,200 Islanders a year.