Open space conservation, winterized housing for employees and generous assistance from a community bank are all factors in an out-of-the-ordinary purchase by the land bank.

The Martha’s Vineyard Hospital is now offering second booster shots of the Covid-19 vaccine to anyone over the age of 50 and people with certain medical conditions.

The best planetary show this month is in the morning. The assembly of nearly all the visible planets will change through the coming mornings.

Innovation Arts & Entertainment will acquire the Martha’s Vineyard Food and Wine Festival, a shoulder-season staple on the Island for 13 years.

So it is April at last. The daffodils are up, but not all in bloom yet.

With a September deadline to meet state financing conditions for the regional high school building project, all six Island towns agreed Wednesday night to begin talks on how to apportion their shares of the cost.

Our dad Richard Leonard was promoted to president and CEO of the Martha’s Vineyard Cooperative Bank in 1989 — a big job for an Island boy freshly graduated from University of Massachusetts.

“The Ukraine crisis is something we don’t want to see.”

—Xi Jinping

A slant of light on a winter afternoon
Illumines a two-foot pine sapling
I forgot I planted at the lawn’s edge.
In my mind’s eye: I accept from
Someone’s hands the tiny tree,
Roots swaddled in a plastic bag.
I transport it from somewhere
And plant it at home on the Vineyard,
Heaping soil around the base, then
Forgetting about it until a ray of light
Points to a tree tall enough for me to see
From the windows of my study.

Leaders of faith communities on Martha’s Vineyard are in the forefront of affordable housing concerns on the Island.

The following letter was sent to the Joint Committee on Housing for the state legislature.