Maundy/Holy Thursday, April 17

Federated Church of Martha’s Vineyard, 45 South Summer street, Edgartown, service 7 p.m.

Grace Episcopal Church, corner of Woodlawn and William streets in Vineyard Haven, community meal, 6 p.m.; liturgy and stripping of the altar 7 p.m.

St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 34 N Summer street, foot washing and stripping of the altar, Edgartown, 7 p.m.

United Methodist Church, 40 Trinity Park, Oak Bluffs, 7 p.m.

First Congregational Church of West Tisbury, 1051 State Road, Tenebrae service, 7:30 p.m.

Maple trees are rolling out the red carpet.

Some brightly colored birds (orioles, tanagers and grosbeaks) are now migrating north through Central America. And storms cross from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico before making their way northward to us.

The Chappy Community Center spring clean-up is scheduled for Saturday, April 26 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Whether you can spend the whole time or just pop in for 30 minutes, your help would be so appreciated.

The weather pattern is still the same. It has been rainy, windy, sunny and foggy. Temperatures have varied too.

If you’ve been to any of the 63 National Parks, you know already that it’s more than just a pretty place; it is an awe inspiring experience.

The weather reminds me of a see-saw. I’m thinking our drought has ended.

It is the early 1950s, somewhere, anywhere, in Canada, and I am standing at the kitchen door on Easter morning in my new Easter clothes.

Prosecutors on Friday decided to not move forward with the charges against Craig A. Daley, who had been accused of assaulting and raping a woman in 2024.

The Ocean View in Oak Bluffs, where generations of Islanders met for family dinners, date nights and drinks before it burned to the ground in 2022, will not be rising from its ashes as a restaurant.