Well, sprinkle a little salt over your left shoulder before reading the column for luck. Spring will be here in a just six days and that will not be soon enough for many of us. People are slowly...

Well, this winter has been mostly mild, much like last season. Despite the weather, spring will arrive in a mere 13 days and that will not be soon enough for many of us. Meteorologists have predicted...

Will March come in like a lion? The old saying is then it will leave like a lamb. It sure has been like a ghost town all week largely because it is the school winter vacation and many families are...

Well it sure will be like a ghost town all week mainly because of the school’s winter vacation that begins this afternoon. Many families have left the Island for a warmer climate while others...

Well, we are heading into a long holiday weekend as Monday is Presidents’ Day so the schools, post office, library and all other town buildings will be closed. School vacation week starts...

Well, we have had a tough January this year, at times mild and spring-like and then bitterly cold. We have had about as much rain as snow for the month. The days are getting longer and seed catalogs...

Well, the weekend weather was all over the map. Touch of snow, rain with high winds forcing several SSA cancellations. The wind chill Saturday morning stood at 4 degrees The line at the Up-Island gas...

Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day and all federal, state and local buildings will be closed, making it the first long weekend of the New Year. Last weekend it was unseasonably warm and Dan...

It is officially recorded that last year was one of the wettest on record. So far we have had little snow but we have picked up over two inches of rain before the New Year began. The holiday rush is...

Thanks to Harry Athearn, Nina Levin and Pierce Kirby for making smooth mail deliveries, and Alan Gowell for minding the cemeteries while I was away for Christmas. The trend in recent years seems to...