Year in and out, the Vineyard explodes in color in May. As May opens, the world comes alive again. Spring has arrived.
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The Martha's Vineyard Horse Council had a Hunter Pace through the state forest this weekend.
September 12, 2022
The Martha's Vineyard Wind Festival continued this weekend in Ocean Park on a clear, blue-sky day, despite scant wind.
September 12, 2022
The annual Aquinnah Powwow at Aquinnah Circle began Saturday with the Grand Entry, a procession of dancers and drummers.
September 12, 2022
With a shake of his bell, Steve Amaral opened the weigh station in Edgartown Sunday morning at 8 a.m. and the 77th Martha’s Vineyard Bass and Bluefish Derby got underway.
September 11, 2022
Call them the last days of summer or the first days before the official arrival of fall.
September 11, 2022
Weathered fishing shacks, stacks of lobster pots and piles of crushed blue mussels, quahaugs and oysters everywhere are the signs you are in Menemsha. People beach, bring their boats in the harbor and kayak in the pond.
September 10, 2022
Cinema enthusiasts and filmmakers mingled outside the film center for the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society’s International Film Festival opening party.
September 9, 2022
It's the time of year when everyone want to get the blues — bluefish, that is, along with false albacore and bonito. The seventy-seventh annual Martha's Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby starts at 12:01 a.m.
September 8, 2022
Island students went back to school today and the rhythms of a new year could be seen all over the Vineyard as kids waited at the end of roads and driveways for school buses to arrive, and parents sat in drop-off lines at elementary schools.
September 6, 2022
The crowded Labor Day weekend — on the town and on the beach — brought a sense of normalcy to the Vineyard. Islanders and off-Islanders alike spent Friday through Monday enjoying what they could of it, soaking in the last gasps of a Vineyard summer.
September 5, 2022
The Agricultural Hall opened its doors and fairgrounds to both the West Tisbury Farmers' Market and Labor Day Artisans Festival on Saturday.
September 5, 2022
The traditional end of summer Herreshoff Cup Race included a twist this year, with the Vineyard Haven Yacht Club competing in the race for the first time and playing host.
September 5, 2022
Labor Day weekend sneaked up this year and caught the Island unawares.
September 4, 2022
How is it that August on the Vineyard can be so different from July? It’s all about location in the landscape of summer. July opens the season, and from its vantage point at the near shore of summer, the days seem to extend almost endlessly, with autumn somewhere over the horizon.
August 30, 2022
After Friday night's rains, Beach Road Weekend returned Saturday with concerts at Veterans Park.
August 28, 2022
Today marks the last weekend in August — one last trip to Larsen's Fish Market, another round of golf at Farm Neck, a box of Murdick's fudge to go, a last swim at South Beach.
August 28, 2022