One immature bald eagle, five snowy owls, 22 great blue herons and a thick-billed murre. This was just part of the tally Friday for the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count, when hundreds of...

Some people spend years of their lives not knowing they need glasses. When they finally get them, the improved clarity of vision is profound. They can see things they didn’t know were even...

In generations past, ships traveling from Europe brought more than just their intended cargo to North America. In the straw that was used as packing material and animal bedding, the ships often...

In John Merrow’s new book, Addicted to Reform: A 12-Step Program to Rescue Public Education, the author describes what he sees as a society hooked on school reform—an addictive pattern of...

On Sunday morning, parishioners crowded around all four entrances of Oak Bluffs’ Union Chapel in anticipation of a sermon from guest minister, Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III, senior pastor of...

Friday’s deluge of rain turned the grassy parking lots around the grounds of the 156th annual Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society Livestock Show and Fair into mud pits. On Saturday...

During the dizzying peak of summer, when intersections are thick with cars, celebrity sightings keep Islanders buzzing, and long lines stretch from ice cream counters, post offices and ferry...

During a total solar eclipse the darkening sky is not the only effect. The temperature drops, winds rise, birds stop singing, fireflies emerge and spiders start dismantling their webs. On Monday,...

Two women wearing hats and sunglasses sat in the narrow strip of shade outside a tent roped off with yellow police tape. Sandy Gogel and Randi Walsh had been waiting since 6:30 a.m. on Sunday for the...

As the sun went down on Friday evening, cars filled up the parking lots at Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs. Then cars filled the space along the narrow driveway. Then they filled the...