Due to the threat of the coronavirus, all Vineyard schools will close for two weeks, beginning Monday.

Tonight’s gibbous moon appears in the zodiacal constellation Libra, a constellation we associate with warmer nights ahead. The moon moves through the zodiacal constellations of summer in the coming week and they include Scorpius, Sagittarius and Capricornus.

At a joint meeting Friday morning between Tisbury selectmen and town board of health officials, selectmen voted unanimously to postpone all meetings on town owned property through May 1.

On Thursday, officials from the state Division of Marine Fisheries division traveled to the Vineyard to hold a public hearing and announced that the regulations to the recreational fisheries were essentially set in stone.

The pace of cancellations has quickened and Island agencies and businesses are announcing new rules aimed at controlling the spread of Covid-19.

It is only a matter of time before COVID-19 reaches Martha’s Vineyard, and preparedness plans are emerging.

In 2019, the Dukes County Sheriff’s Office communications center logged 332 reports of deer struck by cars around the Island, more than double the amount in 2014.

A year after a fire leveled a historic barn to its foundation and claimed the lives of 90 animals at Flat Point Farm, a new flock of eight bluefaced leicester-montadale sheep have been introduced.

Edward F. Caldwell and Christiane G. Caldwell purchased 60 Meetinghouse Road in Chilmark from Melanie C. Wells for $1,225,000 on March. 3.

Enjoying this early spring like weather immensely with sun filled days welcoming spring with temperatures in the 50s and nearing the 60s.