Catboat Coffee, which recently opened in the Tisbury Marketplace, is a true family business, utilizing the skills of five family members with specialities ranging from cheese and coffee to Lebanese food.

Spring, of course, arrived last week. In West Tisbury, daffodils heralded it by blooming in Ann Burt’s yard.

For five days the heart of West Tisbury was transformed into a movable feast of cinema for the 23rd annual Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival.

Nearly two years after implementing the International Baccalaureate curriculum, the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School is preparing its first cohort of students to graduate from the prestigious program.

The 23rd Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival opened Wednesday evening at the Grange Hall with Waiting to Continue: The Venezuelan Asylum Seekers on Martha’s Vineyard. The festival continues through Sunday.

Tonight's crescent moon has a feature we all associate with spring. The cusps are evenly placed in distance from the horizon. It looks like the moon is a bowl and it can hold water. An artist, an illustrator, can draw a picture of the moon holding water. This only happens in the evening at spring time here on Martha's Vineyard.

Tonight's crescent moon appears above the brilliant planet Venus. Both are in the zodiacal constellation Aries. The moon is moving into the zodiacal constellation Taurus where it will be for the rest of the weekend.

After being indicted by a federal grand jury last week, three men pleaded not guilty Friday to charges connected to the armed robbery of the Tisbury Rockland Trust Bank in November.

Vineyarders mobilized by the Coalition to Create the Martha’s Vineyard Housing Bank had one mission on Thursday in Boston: to encourage legislators to pass the Island housing bank bill.

The principle that citizens have the right to know what their leaders are doing is the idea behind Sunshine Week, which each year at this time celebrates laws that promote openness in government.

Forty years ago — that went fast! — I was well into my first year as a reporter on the Gazette.