We have no adoptions to report this week but our pets of the week are Molly and Mia, two very friendly Guinea Pigs.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $118,490 for the business week ending on Friday, Feb. 14, 2025.

In the 60s I marched against the Vietnam War. In the 70s I voted against a corrupt President.

Last week, I attended a public Zoom session hosted by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection regarding public beach access on Chappy.

Friends of Family Planning knows that the current presidential administration and its anti-choice allies are fighting to gut reproductive rights across the country.

On election night, I refused to read the news or look at my phone. I put everything on Do Not Disturb and went to sleep.

In March, the Friends of Mill Pond will sponsor Celebrating the Mill Pond: Sustaining Serenity Together, a delusional, misbegotten, month-long “community awareness campaign” to support maintaining the artificial impoundment that harms Mill Brook.

A group tasked with reviewing the management of the Chilmark Community Center is recommending an overhaul of how the center is run, according to a new report released last week.

The two brightest planets in our evening sky are Venus and Jupiter. This is a good time to take note of both, for Venus is beginning to slide closer and closer to the horizon.

Venus is brightest, because it is both the closest and it is covered by clouds.

Jupiter is bright, because it is the biggest planet in our solar system. It is prominent in our night sky, in the zodiacal constellation Taurus. The planet is 484 million miles away and getting farther away.

Venus is getting closer to us and will be closest early in March, but not visible.

Luciana P. Docarmo, 45, of Edgartown was arraigned on a Dec. 12 charge in Oak Bluffs of assault and battery. She was released on personal recognizance and has a pretrial hearing on March 21.