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Volunteer firefighters from Oak Bluffs, Edgartown and the Martha’s Vineyard Airport battled a fire in frigid conditions for two and a half hours early Saturday evening in the airport business park.
January 27, 2013
Chili cooks and partakers descended on the Portuguese American Club Saturday for the annual Big Chili Contest which benefits the Red Stocking Fund.
January 27, 2013
Once a year, The Trustees of Reservations leads a hike through the property known as The Brickyard— conservation restricted land that lies in between Menemsha Hills and Great Rock Bight which was once the site of a functioning brick works industry.
January 25, 2013
The wooden tents of the Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association received six inches of snow this week.
January 25, 2013
With frigid temperatures hovering belowing freezing, Vineyarders headed out to enjoy the blanket of snow that fell Monday eveneing.
January 23, 2013
Following a busy weekend of football games, inaugurations and the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, the Island woke on Tuesday to several inches of snow and sunshine.
January 22, 2013
Wind blew most of the snow away from Lambert's Cove Beach on Friday morning, leaving behind small snow dunes and scattered patches of white by sunset.
January 18, 2013
From the gleaming russet wood of pint-sized instruments, to the shining buckles on children’s dress shoes, to the carefully-practiced notes of the Hallelujah Chorus, Thursday night’s All-Island Winter Strings Concert was full of polish.
January 18, 2013
Islanders woke up to several inches of snow Friday morning - as well as plenty of sunshine - both welcome sights after a gray week.
January 18, 2013
Oak Bluffs woke up to blue sky and white snow this morning, adding a lightness to what seemed like a very gray week on the Island.
January 18, 2013
The first snow of the year arrived overnight, blanketing the Island in 3.2 inches of snow, according to the National Weather Service cooperative station in Edgartown.
January 18, 2013
Near the northern shore of Squibnocket Pond on a recent winter day, Tim Boland and Kristen Fauteux stood up to their necks in water, holding cameras, pruning shears and bulky bags high above their heads.
January 17, 2013
Flat Point Farm, a 91-acre working farm nestled between two coves of the Tisbury Great Pond, has been owned by the Fischer family for several generations.
January 14, 2013
Frost settles on the open fields of Edgartown and coats leaves and spears of straw on a recent chilly morning.
January 14, 2013
Hundreds of adults and children turned out Sunday at the Martha's Vineyard Hospital to get free vaccinations against the flu. With help from dozens of volunteers, a long line of adults and children — at times snaking through several hallways — moved swiftly and efficiently through the process.
January 13, 2013
