Even if you don’t have kids in the school system you’ll probably recognize the name Jenny DeVivo.

Just a reminder, when the derby ends so does the summer schedule on the Chappy Ferry.

The weather has been pleasurable over the past week.

Just off the coast of Noman’s Land is a rock that once rested on the island.

Autumn’s back, courting dreams.

As autumn arrives on Martha’s Vineyard and we feel the temperatures slowly drop, we begin to think about the colder months ahead.

As I watch my native California burn, yet again, I ponder the possibilities of a Vineyard burn.

From the Oct. 8, 1937 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:
In the vernacular of the old Vineyard, the word gimcrack covered even more than a multitude of sins, and some of them were sins indeed though committed, no doubt, with the most lofty of intentions.

An interview with David Vigneault, executive director of the Dukes County Regional Housing Authority

Even without striped bass in the derby this year, the number of fish crossing the scales each day routinely reaches triple digits.