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Over 400 cyclists participated in Ride The Vineyard 2024 to raise money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Duarte’s Pond was the place to be as the Kids’ Trout Tournament began at daybreak on Saturday. This is the 50th year for the annual trout tournament, started in 1973 by Island fisherman Cooper Gilkes 3rd and his wife Lela.
The birds are deep in conversation each morning, calling back and forth to greet each day. A warm sun plays peekaboo with a gray sky and chilly wind. The water warms but is not yet warm.
MV Youth announces its list of 2024 scholarship recipients.
Oak Bluffs parade and opening day ceremonies herald a new season for Martha's Vineyard Little League.
April begins her departure, a stage setter stepping aside now for May to make its grand entrace.
Unofficially the first poet laureate of the Island was Dionis Coffin Riggs, who began hosting a poetry group at the Cleaveland House in West Tisbury in 1960. Here is Dionis’s poem Wait, Spring, which was published in the April 19, 1996 Gazette:
The spring migration is in full force in April as ummer visitors come north while winter residents depart. Osprey, greater yellowlegs, piping plovers and double-crested cormorants arrive with southerly winds.
Early. That’s the message of the Vineyard these days. Everything’s early and that translates to a kind of seasonal confusion. In the old days we didn’t need a calendar to tell the time of year.
The arrival of spring will lock the sun on the Island side of the equator for the next six months and this is the real news of this seasonal moment.
Democracy at the ground level — in a grammar school gym, an historic whaling church and a performing arts center — began last night when a trio of town meetings opened the political season on the Vineyard.
Vineyarders gathered at libraries, shorelines, town streets, rooftops and in backyards. They huddled on beach chairs, sat on Lucy Vincent Beach rocks, the Big Bridge and anywhere else that offered prime viewing spots.
Hundreds of people crowded into the regional high school gym Sunday afternoon, filling the bleachers and sidelines for the memorial scholarship basketball tournament in honor of Waylon Madison Sauer, who died in a car accident this fall.
Albert Fischer weaves a love story at the memorial for his wife, Linda, to the Chilmark Community Center S.R.O crowd.
The parade of flowers are in bloom with daffodils flamboyantly leading the way, the grass is greening up nicely, and the air is warmer. It's an April morning, and everything is new.