It's December. Each year it arrives as the 12th month. Each year it arrives far too quickly.

Members of the Chilmark Fire Department are in the home stretch of taking the EMT course.

The Chilmark Volunteer Firefighter's Association is collecting items to be donated to the Red Stocking Fund.

Phil Smith told Mary Jo Joiner he was willing to check out Alaska but never thought he'd settle in and call it home.

They say the weather on your birthday is a reflection of how you behaved during the course of the previous year.

The winter stakes have been put on moorings, the swim line has been hauled, and the harbor shack has been buttoned up for the season.

Casey Elliston was celebrated at the derby awards ceremony this past weekend at Farm Neck.

One thing I liked about Chilmark when I moved here 30 years ago was the sense of true community connection.

The children have stopped running up and down the dock to drop their crabs, fish and other little sea creatures in the Texaco's touch tank.

Some surprises are hard to keep from the recipient, but all those involved with this one were tight-lipped despite the overwhelming excitement bubbling from within.