Hello Désirée Cristina and Ivan Bourguignon of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a daughter, Désirée Marie Bourguignon, born on August 21, 2011, at...
KATHIE CASE 508-627-5349 (kathleencase@comcast.net) Here we go, it is hurricane season and it seems at the writing of this column that Irene is...
BRAD WOODGER 508-627-4216 (ibwsgolf@aol.com) Irene is due to arrive Sunday or Monday. Don’t think I’ll make the beds for her — hopefully she’ll...
shorebirds sand ocean
The newly-hatched young of Arctic-nesting shorebirds are able to fend for themselves completely, just a few days after emerging from the egg. The...
Wilde Whitcomb bluefish beach
An Aquinnah resident caught two bluefish by hand at the end of the day last Saturday. Wilde Whitcomb, 31, was out walking with his sister,...
log cabin red roof stone chimney
By NINA TARNAWSKY A rare collaboration between Harlem Renaissance artists Norman Lewis and Augusta Savage, called The Hubert Log Cabin, is coming...
Biff Birmingham
In the Panama Canal the grand challenges facing the world are played out in miniature. Here freshwater management, deforestation, biodiversity and...
Bill Ganson microphone quilt
Next month an overwhelming majority of members of the United Nations is expected to vote in favor of recognizing Palestine, including areas now...
On the afternoon of June 27, Doug Kass and his eight-year-old daughter Amelia, of Raleigh, N.C., were out for a walk on the south shore in...
Paul Shultz beach bottle sand
As Paul Schultz drives up and down East Beach on Chappaquiddick, past picnicking families and fishermen lining the shore casting far into the...
Please Adopt Us Our featured animal this week at the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard is a dog named Rocky. He is a two-year-old Beagle/lab...
I finally got my first mosquito bite. I was becoming somewhat smug. I do think as one ages one is not as tasty.

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