The brightest planet in the western sky, Venus is very close to the planet Saturn. The two are in planetary conjunction. It is easy to tell which of the two is Venus, but make sure you can see the considerably fainter Saturn nearby.

This weekend the two will separate, as though going their own way. Saturn is sinking lower and lower in the western sky in the nights ahead, while Venus appears to be stationary.

What’s wrong with me? I hate the heat and humidity in summer but now I’m whining about the cold.

The Martha’s Vineyard public schools system is updating its school safety policy to include a protocol for federal inquiries into the immigration status of students and their families.

The 5:30 a.m. freight departure from Vineyard Haven is back in business for the next couple of months, after regulatory complications pushed back planned dock work at the Steamship Authority terminal until this fall.

Jules Feiffer, the Pulitzer-prize winning cartoonist, playwright, author and screenwriter, whose satirical wit and illustrations were for a time the voice of the Village Voice died on Jan. 17.

David Capato, who was arraigned last week after allegedly claiming he had explosives at the Steamship Authority terminal, was transferred from the Dukes County jail to Bridgewater State Hospital.

Justin Leblanc, 50, died in Tisbury in late December, according to police and court officials.

Chef Ting, a prominent Island chef, plans to open the year-round Black Joy Kitchen this spring in the former Bombay Indian Cuisine building on Oakland avenue.

Just hours after his inauguration, President Donald Trump ordered the federal government to conduct a review of the “ecological, economic, and environmental necessity of terminating or amending any existing wind energy leases."

The Vineyard remembered and paid tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King in a series of events during the holiday weekend.