More than 20 volunteers gathered Sunday morning to plant 10 new trees across three parks in Oak Bluffs — Niantic, Nashawena and Viera.
Farm & Garden
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By LYNNE IRONS Due to the subject matter, reader discretion is advised. This column is written solely for non-vegetarians. I have not eaten a...
By LYNNE IRONS I was happy to read Abigail Higgins’s column in the Martha’s Vineyard Times last week. She wrote about the National Animal...
By LYNNE IRONS Last Saturday’s cold snap lit a fire under me. There were so many last (for me, first) minute winter preparations. I stapled a...
By Lynne Irons> For years, I viewed alyssum as old lady plants. Now that I have become one, I know why. First of all, they are completely...
By LYNNE IRONS Suzan Bellincampi’s All Outdoors column last week was so informative about plastic bags. All I could think about was the scene in...
By Lynne Irons> Every year the human heart loses several grams of muscle mass and therefore pumps less blood as we age. Those of a certain age...
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Nature & Science Stories
A new chapter in Island environmental restoration is blooming in a laboratory on the shores of the Lagoon. There, in a cool tub of water at a Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group Hatchery, a small artificial meadow of eelgrass is beginning to flower.
A 4.8 magnitude earthquake centered in New Jersey caused minor tremors on Martha’s Vineyard Friday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey’s Earthquake Hazards program.