A full moon owl prowl takes place on Monday, Jan. 13, and will be led by Sydney Pigott, an experienced hand with owls.

2024 opened with a severe storm battering the Island, the third in just over a month, each one turning its unwavering attention on the south shore. It closed with the first snowfall of the season, bringing with it a white Christmas.

It is once again time for the Christmas Bird Count, the annual check-in by avian admirers to see which way the wind is blowing for our feathered friends.

Janet Messineo, a revered fisherman who stalked the nighttime shores of the Vineyard for more than 50 years, died on Dec. 17 at her home in Vineyard Haven.

Percival Everett won the National Book Award for his novel James, a retelling of the Mark Twain novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the slave, Jim’s, perspective.

Virginia (Ginny) Jones, whose roots in West Tisbury were as strong and deep as her love for the town and for a way of life on the Vineyard she feared was disappearing, died on Nov. 13. She was 82.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Kate Altman lived in Los Angeles, in particular the Laurel Canyon area, an epicenter of art and music and film.

During her long career at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum as its oral historian, Linsey Lee has interviewed over 1,000 Islanders, giving voice to their lives and stories.

The mornings have turned chilly and the dog, always a lazy sort who likes to sleep in, has burrowed under the covers, lying in bed with my daughter.

This Saturday, the Martha’s Vineyard Surfcasters Association hosts its annual used tackle sale. All proceeds support scholarships for Island students.